Stories written by Swathi Narayanan

Physician-Led CME Addresses Human Trafficking - 01/22/2024

Physicians can play an important role in spotting and potentially helping human trafficking victims during doctors’ visits. With the help of a Texas Medical Association leader, they’re learning how.


FDA Approves New RSV Vaccine, COVID-19 Booster - 10/19/2023

Physicians will have a new vaccine in their arsenal to help protect against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a timely development as cold, flu, and COVID-19 illnesses tend to converge and ramp up this time of year and become difficult to differentiate.


TMA Connects Medicine with the Media Through Outstanding Health Reporting Award - 08/25/2023

In yet another successful year of connecting medicine with the media, the Texas Medical Association’s Council on Health Promotion honored two Texas health care reporters with the 2023 Texas Health Journalist of the Year award in the 66th Anson Jones, MD, Awards news media competition.


Texas Physicians Reflect on Two Years of Battling COVID-19 - 03/17/2022

Two years ago this week, normal life in Texas stopped. Uncertainty, fear, and anxiety loomed as the new coronavirus, SARS CoV-2, arrived in Texas. Looking back, physicians reflect on the ongoing impact of March 13, 2020, when Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19, the disease the virus causes.