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COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Portal Now Open

WEBEdward Brown. -. January 4, 2021. 24. istock. Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) officials recently announced a new online portal to register for the COVID-19 vaccine. The inoculation is offered at no cost, and any resident can register, although priority will be given to health care workers, the elderly, and individuals who are at high risk

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Fort Worth Medical Workers Receive First COVID-19 …

WEBWednesday’s COVID-19 vaccine felt like “hope in a bottle,” said Dr. Kerim Razack, partner with Texas Pulmonary & Critical Care Consultants at Texas Health Southwest. As one of three critical care doctors at his southwest Fort Worth hospital, Dr. Razack has worked six weeks straight. Since March, he estimates that

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COVID-19 Vaccinations Ramping up in Tarrant County

WEBTarrant County Public Health (TCPH) has expanded COVID-19 vaccination efforts to include three treatment locations, where wait times have been reduced, according to a county spokesperson. Residents can sign up for vaccines through a new online portal. The initial online registration process takes around 30 minutes, said county …

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Medical Doctor Answers Questions about COVID-19

WEBWe reached out to a local medical doctor, Kerim Razack, with more than 20 years of experience in critical care medicine and pulmonary (lung-related) disease treatment to answer common questions Fort Worthians have concerning COVID-19, the rapidly spreading disease that has afflicted more than80,000 Americans to date. Dr. Razack is a …

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State-of-the-Art Medical Simulator Coming to Fort Worth

WEBBeginning mid-summer, students at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) will have access to an advanced on-campus simulation center that can replicate a wide range of real-life medical scenarios. The $6.75 million Regional Simulation Center, which will be centrally located at UNTHSC’s Gibson D. Lewis Library, …

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Ladies and Germs, it’s Greg “Big COVID” Abbott!

WEBThe big news locally is still the coronavirus. The Texas health department says that we averaged about 260 COVID-19 deaths per day over the last month. That’s well over 7,500 poor souls gone too soon. And at the same time businesses are going out of their ways to force their employees to get the damn jab already,

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Sick Workers at JPS

WEBFull-time employees who rack up a total score of nine or higher during a year can be fired, according to the policy. An employee shared it with me recently. “This is recent,” the employee said. “Again, not ‘thank you for putting yourself and your family at risk.’. One of the workers said JPS executives are working “tucked away in

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Tracking an Epidemic

WEBGov. Greg Abbott’s recent executive order and public statements are leading the Lone Star State toward a phased easing of shelter-in-place orders. As many Fort Worth businesses prepare to reopen in the coming weeks, local public health officials and university staff are ramping up efforts to track and quarantine COVID-19 cases through …

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Inflation Nation: The Cost Of Braces And Other Medical …

WEBAccording to the Consumer Price Index, the start of 2022 saw a massive rise of 7% in the inflation rate across all sectors in the U.S. Inflation has prompted the most significant increase in the costs of goods and services in the last 40 years.Likewise, in the medical sector, Americans spent $4.1 trillion in 2020 (an average of $12,530 per …

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Doctors Still Needed For Free Medical Clinic In Dallas

WEBThough we tend to avoid re-reporting Dallas news on our side of the Metroplex (except for the Cowboys, which actually play on our side), there's a free medical clinic in Dallas on September 29 for those who lack health insurance. Fort Worthians in such a predicament can also take advantage of the clinic, though

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Wells, Well-Being, and Julie Wilson

WEBNashville-based Healthways hired Wilson last week to lead a well-being plan known as the Blue Zones Project. The idea is to encourage people to eat more nutritious foods and exercise more and to live longer and better. Healthways is partnered with Texas Health Resources, a system with 25 hospitals under its umbrella in North Texas, …

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Insurance is Becoming Unaffordable To Many Texans

WEBThe Lone Star State is renowned for its gorgeous landscapes and larger-than-life attitude.Unfortunately, Texas is also becoming known for another thing among its resident motorists: the soaring cost of insurance. With the economy in a shaky state and many Texans already struggling financially, a major hike in insurance premiums is the …

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Clinics Under Duress as Abortion Ban Starts

WEBAs of Sept. 1, health-care providers in Texas have had to explain to many patients why they cannot have an abortion. Marva Sadler, senior director at Whole Woman’s Health, a clinic that provides abortions among many other services, has experienced this first-hand. “It’s been a mix of frustration to begging and

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Sunflower Shoppe

WEBSunflower Shoppe Vitamins and More has been a small but significant part of life in Fort Worth since it opened in 1970, selling a range of products –– from natural shampoo to goat’s milk. But with Whole Foods Market and Sprouts down the street, and a new Natural Grocers a few miles away on West 7th Street, the competition is stiff.

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Frontline Workers

WEBFrontline Health Care Worker. Readers’ Choice: Beth Mueller, RN, Baylor Scott & White, 1800 Park Pl Av, 682-703-5600. Critic’s Choice: Vicki Cannon, Director of Clinical Services, UNT Health Science Center. Health care workers have become synonymous with heroes and for good reason. Every day across Tarrant County, …

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