By Rebecca Hennes Updated 9:45 am CDT, Saturday, June 20, 2020 Vasanthi Avadhanula shows Dr. Pedro Piedra lab results from Baylor College of Medicine’s work with antibodies to the coronavirus. Piedra led Baylor’s development of a coronavirus antibody blood test the medical school plans to use to determine the prevalence of the virus in Houston. less…
By Alison Medley Published 12:32 pm CDT, Saturday, June 13, 2020 Sugar Land-based stem cell lab, Hope Biosciences, just received FDA approval for its second protocol to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of stem cell therapy against COVID-19. Sugar Land-based stem cell lab, Hope Biosciences, just received FDA approval for its second protocol to evaluate the…
Houston opened to 75% capacity on Friday, but it may not last long. Officials are cautioning that they may need to order people back home and open a COVID-19 hospital at NRG Stadium, a football complex, as coronavirus cases surge in the nation's fourth-largest city."I'm growing increasingly concerned that we may be approaching the precipice…
Houston opened to 75% capacity on Friday, but it may not last long. Officials are cautioning that they may need to order people back home and open a COVID-19 hospital at NRG Stadium, a football complex, as coronavirus cases surge in the nation's fourth-largest city."I'm growing increasingly concerned that we may be approaching the precipice…
Houston police chief Art Acevedo suggested on "Your World" Wednesday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin may have had a personal motivation when he knelt on George Floyd's neck shortly before his May 25 death, and urged investigators to examine the relationship between both men "very closely.""I know if it was in my city, I would be investigating very closely…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…