Parents across North Texas have had to make really tough decisions this summer on whether their child should go back to the classroom or learn virtually.

The CDC warned Tuesday that 2020 is likely to be a peak year for an uncommon but dangerous and potentially life-threatening neurological disease affecting children, acute flaccid myelitis. The illness, also known as AFM, is believed to be caused by a virus and peaks every two years between August and November. In 2018 there were 238 confirmed cases...

NBC 5’s Health Reporter Bianca Castro breaks down what we know about kids and the coronavirus.

The U.S. government will pay drugmakers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to develop and deliver 100 million doses of their potential coronavirus vaccine, the companies announced Friday. More than half of the $1.5 billion will be used to support further development of the vaccine, including clinical trials. The rest will be for manufact...

Tarrant County Public Health officials issued a public health warning Thursday due to record-high levels of positive West Nile virus mosquito activity, according to Tarrant County Public Health.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is extending flexibilities to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients through Oct. 23 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday.

Carter BloodCare is offering coronavirus antibody testing on successful blood donations for a limited time.

People with a cervix might notice a change on their next visit to the OB-GYN thanks to new guidelines about cervical cancer screenings. These new rules aim to reduce stress and increase detection of the virus that causes most cervical cancers.

A North Texas resident was given the opportunity to play one of the top golf courses in America last weekend as a gift honoring his perseverance through a very difficult health journey.

The City of Richardson will be spraying for mosquitoes after a trap returned mosquitoes that tested positive for carrying West Nile Virus, the Richardson Health Department said.

In promoting the reopening of schools this fall, Trump administration officials have, at times, inaccurately described the evidence on how COVID-19 affects children.

As coronavirus cases climb in the United States, so are overdoses. While the Centers for Disease Control reports drug deaths fell in 2018 for the first time in more than two decades, they rose again in 2019 and health experts are seeing alarm increases this year, many possibly tied to the pandemic. In Wisconsin, overdose deaths have more than doubl...

New study results are boosting hopes that there soon may be a simple, reliable way to help family doctors diagnose the most common form of dementia