What ’s Better, Immunity From a Shot, or From the Disease?
Although suffering through a disease sometimes gives you immunity from catching that same disease later in life, vaccinating against diseases instead is the safest way to protect yourself and your loved ones. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - March 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Record Number of Doctors Arriving to Care for Texas Patients
For every Texan seeking medical care, a record – and increasing – number of physicians is available to respond. Texas’ physician workforce is growing at a record pace, according to new data. For the first time in three decades, the ratio of patient-care physicians for every 100,000 people has increased for 10 straight years (2009-2019). (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - February 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA to Honor Physicians, Trauma Teams for Walmart Shooting Response
The president of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) will honor the many physicians, hospital caregivers, emergency medical technicians, and others who responded to the tragic El Paso Walmart shooting on Aug. 3, 2019. A gunman shot and killed 22 people and injured 24 others, many of whom received care in area hospitals. TMA President David C. Fleeger, MD, will present a TMA President ’s Award to members of El Paso’s emergency medicine community at a brief ceremony. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - February 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I Got My Shot; Why Am I Sick? Physicians Explain
The bottom line: Vaccines are our best protection against disease,
but in some situations vaccinated people can still get sick. In the case
of influenza, several factors can cause this. Nonetheless, physicians
stress vaccines are the best form of protection, shielding many
individuals from the disease or at least reducing the severity of
symptoms, and preventing hospitalization or death. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - February 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Insurance Companies Have Denied My Doctor ’s Orders, 25% of Texas Voters Say in New Poll
One in four Texas voters say their health insurance company has refused to cover what their physician ordered for them or their families, a new statewide survey has found. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TMA Honors Dallas Physician With Public Health Lifetime Achievement Award
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) presented its inaugural Laurance N. Nickey, MD, Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert W. Haley, MD, director of the Division of Epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a TMA physician leader. Doctors presented the award Saturday at the 2020 TMA Winter Conference in Austin. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate Change, Surprise Billing/Insurance Delays to Top TMA Conference
How does climate change threaten the health and survival of humans? Beyond obvious threats like heatstroke, doctors and other scientists suspect climate change factored in the 2012 Dallas epidemic of West Nile encephalitis and the spread of other tropical diseases shared by mosquitos. One physician expert points to climate change as a contributing factor for allergies, asthma, worse COPD conditions, and heart attacks. Physicians will address this timely issue and more during the 2020 Texas Medical Association (TMA) Winter Conference in Austin this week. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Texas Physicians Explain Herd Immunity Needed to Fight Contagious-Disease Hotspots
A community with enough vaccinated people can protect each other from the spread of contagious disease. Herd immunity – also known as community immunity – protects those who are not immune and those who cannot or choose not to get vaccinated. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - January 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Do Vaccines Prevent Us from Getting Sick?
Vaccines work to prevent people from catching infectious diseases. Here ’s how: They introduce a dead or weakened version of the virus or bacteria to train our natural defenses to kick in. If our body faces a real threat from the live germ later, the immune system is armed to block it from harming us. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - December 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Science: Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism; Physicians Fight to Reassure, Immunize
Physicians repeat it over and over: Vaccines like the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine do not cause autism; they are safe and effective. Yet the decades-old false claim that vaccines do cause autism has convinced millions of parents not to give their children potentially lifesaving shots and could lead more to opt out, according to Texas physicians. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prop. 6 Passage Will Save Lives
Statement by David C. Fleeger, MD, president of the Texas Medical Association, in reaction to the passage of Proposition 6. “Thanks to Texans who checked ‘yes’ in support of Proposition 6 in today’s election, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) can build on its legacy of saving countless Texans’ lives, while saving and making Texas millions of dollars every year...." (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Science: Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism; Physicians Fight to Reassure, Immunize
Physicians repeat it over and over: Vaccines like the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine do not cause autism; they are safe and effective. Yet the decades-old false claim that vaccines do cause autism has convinced millions of parents not to give their children potentially lifesaving shots and could lead more to opt out, according to Texas physicians. (Source: TMA News Room)
Source: TMA News Room - November 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
