Health

Putting families in touch with resources to help stay healthy is the motivation behind the Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Expo which happens Saturday, June 11th from 9am to 1pm at Liberty Academy. Texas A&M's Agrilife Extension and Health Science Center has teamed up with Healthy South Texas to put on the expo, which will offer free diabetes screenings and information, and other service

Listen to your tattoo artists people!  They know what they're talking about! A Dallas man died recently after swimming in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after getting a new tattoo on his leg. While swimming, the bacteria vibrio vulnificus entered his body through the open skin...

Kids these days are doing DIY tattoos. This news station set up a PSA letting the public know how gross and dangerous doing DIY tattoos is.

We hear about drug busts and drug problems on the news all the time but when it comes down to it, Texas fares pretty well compared to other states. According to the personal finance website WalletHub, the States with the Biggest Drug Problems in 2017 compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of 15 key metrics, ranging from arrest and overdose rates to opioid prescriptions and me

Each year, the Victoria County Sheriff's Office teams up with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Victoria Environmental Services to offer a safe, anonymous way to dispose of old, unused expired prescription and over the counter meds that might otherwise end up contaminating the water supply, the landfill or even worse, getting in the hands of children...

Have you ever had a really bad sunburn? This sports reporter learned a very valuable lesson and wanted to share it with the masses.

If your city water seems any different beginning next week, it's probably because the City of Victoria is returning their water purification process back to Chloramines this Sunday. Once each year, the city uses a free chlorine purification process for about a month to treat water at the treatment plant, and that means dialysis patients have to change the pretreatment process for their machines, b

This must've eel-y hurt.

At my house, we have some old, unused expired prescription medication and some old, expired over the counter meds, too. How do you get rid of them safely, without having to worry about them getting into the wrong hands, like your kids or putting them in the water supply by flushing them...

Let's drink a toast to these innovators.

Here's the ultimate in killing two birds with one stone.

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and according to the financial website WalletHub, that includes 3 of the fattest cities in America. The report says that 70% of Americans are overweight, and when the metrics are compared to reveal the Top 20 Fattest Cities, McAllen, San Antonio and Houston were ranked 4th, 14th and 17th...