Enrollment for the 2021 Health Insurance Marketplace has reopened during a special COVID-19 enrollment period through May 15, said Ashley Tompkins, director of communications for the Galveston County Health District.
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.” — Sir William Osler, MD
The medical community is ecstatic about the Food and Drug Administration approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the third vaccine to be used for the prevention of COVID-19.
The most dire potential consequence of excessive exposure to the cold is hypothermia, or dangerously low body temperature.
How much do you enjoy dieting? I thought so — most of us would rather play in traffic on the interstate rather than begin or stick to a diet.
Here are the recent health inspections for activity Feb. 21 through Feb. 27 provided from the Galveston County Health District.
“This instant is the only time there is.” — “A Course in Miracles,” Lesson 308
For the majority of these diseases, we don't have effective therapeutics or vaccines to treat those that get sick.
Once authorized, the J&J vaccine will be the only COVID-19 vaccine available in the United States that requires a single dose. It's a different kind of vaccine than the mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna.
With all the chaos and the pent-up energy of children, it's a good time to take a deep breath and review some tips to help keep them safe.
Here are the recent health inspections for activity Feb. 7 through Feb. 13 provided from the Galveston County Health District.
With Valentine’s Day just behind us and likely some smooching especially in the cold weather, it seems timely to explore the subject of kissing.
Much more is known about COVID-19 and pregnancy now that we’re a year into the pandemic.
Since the pandemic started, many things have changed. One thing has been the increased adoption/fostering of pets. Overall, this is a good thing as there’s much evidence that caring for pets is healthy. It’s important, however, that children know how to behave around animals.
When we bite into a nice sugary dessert, the flavor we enjoy is the result of one of the five basic elements of taste: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami.
“In times of deep darkness, we not only need light — we need to be a light for one another.”
We’ve received many questions from readers anxious about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Several questioned reactions they experienced after receiving their shot. I hope our responses help answer the questions you may have as well.
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Along with managing the complex work of delivering vaccines to more than 300,000 people, give or take, in the county, health officials also are working to identify and address worries and myths that might keep people from being inoculated against the virus.
"We can handle more," Galveston County Judge Mark Henry said of the county's ability to get people vaccinated.
Today, we don’t hear much about leprosy in the United States, but in the early 1900s, leprosy was spreading on the Hawaiian Islands. Mild cases of leprosy were treated at a leprosarium in Honolulu, and advanced cases were quarantined on a peninsula on Molokai.
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