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About 300,000 North Texans with special needs have trouble finding dental treatment. Dr. Dan Burch of the Texas A&M College of Dentistry wants to fix that.

A fourth wave of COVID-19 is threatening to overwhelm U.S. hospitals in regions where large swaths of unvaccinated people provide little resistance to the highly contagious delta variant. “By not getting vaccinated and doing your part, we risk crashing one of the most advanced health care systems in the world,” said Angela G. Clendenin, a professor at Texas A&M School of Public Health.

The high cost of COVID safety measures is putting a big dent in television and film production budgets, but leading experts believe that innovations in testing could make shooting cheaper. Now, they need to convince the entertainment industry guilds and unions to sign on.

They used their car to stay warm when a winter storm brought down the Texas power grid. In a state that doesn’t require carbon monoxide alarms in homes, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

Roderick Dashwood, director of the Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention in Houston, says anyone interested in health products should be aware of what they’re actually ingesting.