Researcher hopes new book will help others better understand women's health needs

Spectrum Local News Health 10/21 8:45A Olivia Levada

Texas' recent ban on abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy has stirred a lot of conversation when it comes to women's health.

$47M in financing nailed down for 'The Oaks' mixed-income senior housing community in Dallas

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/21 2:59A Bill Hethcock

Lument real estate finance firm has provided $47.1 million in financing for The Oaks, a mixed-income seniors housing project in Dallas.

Judge bars United from putting unvaccinated workers on leave

Spectrum Local News Health 10/14 12:26A Associated Press

The restraining order expires Oct. 26.

Parents and students sue multiple North Texas school districts

Spectrum Local News Health 10/13 7:04A Ashley Claster

Families living in four different North Texas school districts are suing their schools on a federal level due to COVID safety.

Survivors try to pull breast cancer screening rates out of pandemic slump

Spectrum Local News Health 10/13 12:19A Brian Scott

Annual mammogram rates fell by nearly 90% during the pandemic, experts fear, putting countless patients at risk of not catching problems early.

Situation improving but Texas approaching 70,000 COVID-19 deaths

Spectrum Local News Health 10/12 6:33A Craig Huber

California passed 70,000 deaths on Monday.

Dallas-based medical staffing company welcomes new leadership, shifts headquarters within North...

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/11 5:47P Plamedie Ifasso

Curative Talent, a Dallas-based health care staffing company welcomed new leadership to its Clinical Search unit and announced plans to relocate its headquarters.

Breast cancer not limited to women: Dallas man details his battle

Spectrum Local News Health 10/11 7:00A Bria Bell

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it's a disease that's not limited to women.

Merck asks U.S. FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill

Spectrum Local News Health 10/11 1:27A Associated Press

Would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19.

DMN: Wisconsin investor buys huge Stemmons office high-rise

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/8 9:39A DBJ Staff

According to a story in The Dallas Morning News, a Wisconsin medical real estate firm has purchased the largest office building in Dallas’ Stemmons Freeway corridor. Milwaukee-based Hammes Partners purchased Trinity Towers, a Class A, 20-story...

Parents sue in boy’s death from brain-eating amoeba in Texas

Spectrum Local News Health 10/6 12:19A Associated Press

All of the city’s four splash pads have been closed for the rest of the year.

Pharos Capital Group acquires new health care portfolio company, begins deploying fourth fund

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/5 9:26P Catherine Leffert

The Dallas- and Nashville-based private equity firm announced it bought a cataract surgical service provider.

Dallas private equity firm closes on deal to give optometry platform "significant capital"

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/5 8:22P Catherine Leffert

Riata Capital Group said the GP-led secondary transaction valued AEG Vision at more than $500 million.

Ortelius urges Capital Senior Living stockholders to vote down capital raise

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/5 5:39P Bill Hethcock

An activist investor opposing a plan by Capital Senior Living Corp. to raise roughly $155 million has escalated its battle against the Dallas-based operator of assisted living facilities.

Women work to get health resources to Central Texans in response to Texas' ban on abortions

Spectrum Local News Health 10/5 2:00P Olivia Levada

Some women Killeen felt called to action after abortion ban.