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    New Budget Plan Cuts Medicaid Spending

    May 03, 2005 04:00 AM EDT

    ... more flexibility. This is a program where it's a one-size-fits-all cookie cutter. We would love flexibility at the state level to tailor benefits to more appropriately fit a population. Everybody doesn't need exactly the same services. There certainly is an issue of CO-pays that ...

  • How vaccine hesitancy may be driving a spike in pediatric flu deaths

    How vaccine hesitancy may be driving a spike in pediatric flu deaths

    May 03, 2025 09:50 PM EDT

    ... Peter Hotez is at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hotez, there's a lot I want to talk to you about, but let's start with that new record for pediatric flow deaths this season. What do you make of that? Dr. Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine: Well ...

  • Health experts worry effort to vaccinate against COVID variants moving too slowly

    Health experts worry effort to vaccinate against COVID variants moving too slowly

    Oct 10, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... no longer in place. But, on the other hand, a lot more people are vaccinated. What are your concerns about this winter? Dr. Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine: Well, we have a good news/not-so-good news story. The good news is the number of cases is really ...

  • Monkeypox virus spreads to multiple countries amid struggle to contain COVID-19

    Monkeypox virus spreads to multiple countries amid struggle to contain COVID-19

    May 23, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    ... government for the last 20 years since the founding of BARDA has been stockpiling vaccines for smallpox and antiviral drugs. So, if the numbers do start to increase, and we have to vaccinate populations at risk, we can move on that pretty quickly. So, for all of those reasons, we ...

  • Remembering 5 remarkable people who lost their lives to COVID-19

    Remembering 5 remarkable people who lost their lives to COVID-19

    Jun 04, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    ... Alicia Martinez was a first-generation college student determined to help people. The 21-year-old was working toward her masters in social work at Baylor University. She was kind, loved to paint and draw, and had helped start a reading program for young students in her hometown of Waco ...

  • What this Texas emergency room physician needs to treat COVID patients

    What this Texas emergency room physician needs to treat COVID patients

    Dec 09, 2020 11:40 PM EDT

    More than 9,000 people are now hospitalized in Texas, and the death toll there is now above 23,000. Cases are spiking across the state including in and around Houston. Dr. Richina Bicette, of the Baylor College of Medicine and an emergency room physician treating COVID patients, joins Amna ...

  • 2 COVID-19 vaccine candidates may protect against the virus. Now what?

    2 COVID-19 vaccine candidates may protect against the virus. Now what?

    Nov 17, 2020 10:14 PM EDT

    ... path to approval take longer as scientists seek additional participants to get the data they need. “The studies need to be completed, and if you start allowing dropouts from the placebo to get a vaccine under the EUA and that could confound the study,” Baylor said. “Would the study even ...

  • COVID phobia is keeping people with serious heart symptoms away from ERs

    COVID phobia is keeping people with serious heart symptoms away from ERs

    Apr 24, 2020 02:09 PM EDT

    ... home orders. ”If anything, we would expect higher rates,” said Biykem Bozkurt, president of the Heart Failure Society of America and professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “We are not seeing the number of patients we should be seeing.” Stress is definitely a factor for Simpson, 53, who ...

  • An infectious disease specialist on what we do and don't know about COVID-19

    An infectious disease specialist on what we do and don't know about COVID-19

    Feb 27, 2020 11:55 PM EDT

    ... then one day there's going to be half the country infected. It's not going to work like that. If we're going to start seeing an uptick, we're going to hear about focal areas of transmission in a few selected cities. And, gradually, that will increase. So ...

  • Does the placenta carry germs? What parents should know before they eat one

    Does the placenta carry germs? What parents should know before they eat one

    Aug 16, 2019 10:32 PM EDT

    Metagenomics is thought to be a cutting-edge and highly sensitive way to spot bacteria because it can identify species using mere fragments of DNA. When the Baylor team ran the placentas through their metagenomic analysis, they found consistent -- though not very abundant -- signs of bacteria. Dozens of studies from ...