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| 24.06.2025 | Texas will put warning labels on some foods, but its additives list has inaccuracies | - |
| 21.04.2025 | FACT FOCUS: Examining RFK Jr.’s claims about measles, autism and diet as head of HHS | Health officials have largely attributed growing autism numbers to better recognition of cases, through wide screening and better diagnosis. Last week, the CDC said diagnosis rate is up to 1 in 31 children.
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| 19.04.2025 | Measles cases reach 800 nationwide | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention April 18 announced there have been 800 reported cases of measles across the country this year. Twenty-four states have reported cases and there have been 10 outbreaks. Most cases (94%) have bee... |
| 08.04.2025 | Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases, including multiple at a day care in Lubbock | The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is first recommended between 12 and 15 months old and a second shot between 4 and 6 years old.
Maegan Messick, co-owner of Tiny Tots U Learning Academy, where the outbreak is occurring, recently told K... |
| 07.04.2025 | School-age child dies in Texas measles outbreak; health chief Kennedy now calls vaccine best protection | WASHINGTON: A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday (Apr 6), in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and has spread across 22 states.
The school-aged child... |
| 05.04.2025 | Measles cases exceed 600 nationally with majority in Texas | There are 607 confirmed cases of measles across the U.S., according to the latest data released April 4 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of cases are in Texas, as an outbreak in the state has grown to 481 case... |
| 02.04.2025 | Colorado's Measles Case: A Wake-Up Call for Vaccination Awareness | A single measles case in Colorado has sent ripples through the state, igniting fears of a potential outbreak. The virus, a formidable foe, is highly contagious and thrives in communities with low vaccination rates. As the nation grapples wi... |
| 02.04.2025 | Colorado's Measles Case: A Ticking Time Bomb? | In the heart of Colorado, a single measles case has ignited a firestorm of concern. The stakes are high. The state’s health officials are on high alert, watching the ripples of exposure. The question looms: will this spark an outbreak? Pueb... |
| 01.04.2025 | Will Colorado’s measles case spark an outbreak? Depends on who got exposed | About 95% of school-aged children in Pueblo are up-to-date on their measles vaccines, said Randy Evetts, director of the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment. The rate is lower among kindergarteners, with about 84% in the city... |
| 01.04.2025 | Will Colorado’s measles case spark an outbreak? Depends on who got exposed. | About 95% of school-aged children in Pueblo are up-to-date on their measles vaccines, said Randy Evetts, director of the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment. The rate is lower among kindergarteners, with about 84% in the city... |
| 13.03.2025 | Health | Measles is spreading. Are you protected? | A: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that measles symptoms — fevers of 104 degrees Fahrenheit or above, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes — appear within 14 days after an infection. Next come tiny white “Koplik spots... |
| 13.03.2025 | Health | Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health | “Some countries are struggling with a lack of capacity. Some countries are struggling with a lack of resources. Some countries are struggling with a lack of resolve,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that day. “... |
| 04.03.2025 | Measles outbreak: ‘People should be worried,’ expert says—what to know about the disease, vaccine and how to stay healthy | Since late January, 146 cases of measles have been identified in West Texas, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Twenty patients have been hospitalized, and a school-age child who wasn’t vaccinated against measles di... |
| 03.03.2025 | Health | Get caught up on measles shots before spring break, Colorado state epidemiologist says | The measles virus lingers in the air and on surfaces for about two hours. Typically, if a measles patient in the contagious phase spent time in a room, nine out of 10 people without immunity who move through that room in the following hours... |
| 28.02.2025 | A Wake-Up Call: The Measles Outbreak and the Church's Reckoning | In a world where shadows loom large, two stories emerge, each a stark reminder of the fragility of trust and the cost of negligence. One tale unfolds in the hallowed halls of the Church of England, where a former leader faces scrutiny for h... |
| 27.02.2025 | Texas child is first death in measles outbreak in the state | A school-aged child in Texas is the first reported individual to die from measles amid an outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions of the state, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced today. The child was not vacc... |
| 26.02.2025 | A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade | Texas Gov. Greg Abbot said through a spokesman that his office is in regular communication with the state health department and epidemiologists, and that vaccination teams are in the “affected area.”
“The state will deploy all necessary res... |
| 14.02.2025 | TPWD to Open Oyster Harvest Area in Matagorda Bay | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is opening TX-18 in Matagorda Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest be... |
| 14.02.2025 | TPWD Abrirá un área de Cosecha de Ostras en la Bahía de Matagorda | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN – El Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Texas (TPWD) abrirá el área de TX-18 en Matagorda Bay a la cosecha comercial y rec... |
| 12.02.2025 | Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Causes Black Vulture Mortalities in New Braunfels Area | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN — Preliminary tests have confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in multiple black vultures recovered at Landa Park in N... |
| 10.02.2025 | Health | Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions | The U.S. saw a rise in measles cases in 2024, including an outbreak in Chicago that sickened more than 60. This month, health officials in metro Atlanta are working to contain a measles case that spread to two unvaccinated family members.
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| 09.01.2025 | Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Causes Duck Mortalities in Austin Area | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN — Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed by preliminary test results in multiple domestic ducks recovered at t... |
| 20.11.2024 | TPWD Closing Oyster Harvest Area in San Antonio Bay | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing TX-26 in San Antonio Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest ... |
| 20.11.2024 | El TPWD Está Cerrando el Área de Aprovechamiento de Ostión en la Bahía San Antonio | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN — El Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Texas (TPWD) está cerrando el Área TX-26 en la Bahía San Antonio al aprovechamient... |
| 17.10.2024 | Texas Oyster Season Opens Nov. 1 | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN— Storms and flooding that hurt oyster production on Texas coasts will lead to a limited opening of commercial and recreational publ... |
| 17.10.2024 | La temporada de ostras de Texas abre el 1 de noviembre | Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN— Las tormentas e inundaciones que perjudicaron la producción de ostras (ostiones) en las costas de Texas llevarán a una apertura li... |
| 11.06.2024 | As FDA urges crackdown on bird flu in raw milk, some states say their hands are tied | Officials in two of the three states probing their first cases of bird flu in dairy cattle this month said their hands are tied after the Food and Drug Administration pleaded with states to ramp up testing and restrictions on potentially in... |
| 03.06.2024 | Farmworkers face high-risk exposures to bird flu, but testing isn’t reaching them | Federal officials told reporters May 22 that just 40 people connected to U.S. dairy farms had been tested for the virus, although others are being “actively monitored” for symptoms.
Federal authorities recently announced they would pay farm... |
| 20.05.2024 | Ascension rolls out maternal health initiative | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Some Austin patients who are at risk for pregnancy complications will be part of a new Ascension program that aims to improve maternal health.
Why it matters: Texas has long struggled with high matern... |
| 03.05.2024 | CDC says bird flu viruses "pose pandemic potential," cites major knowledge gaps | Bird flu continues to appear to pose a "low risk to the general public" for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But the agency's scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this "pandemi... |
| 23.04.2024 | Op-Ed: Removing barriers is critical for the future of Houston's health care workforce | Houston houses one of the most renowned medical communities in the world. However, Texas' current health care workforce shortage has severely impacted the city, with large swaths of the Gulf Coast Region deemed medically underserved. Thousa... |
| 02.04.2024 | Rare human case of bird flu contracted in Texas following contact with dairy cattle | A rare human case of bird flu has been reported in Texas after a person came into contact with cattle suspected of being infected. The announcement comes days after federal agencies said the virus had spread to dairy cattle across multiple ... |
| 02.04.2024 | Person tests positive for bird flu after contact with infected dairy cows in Texas | A person is being treated for bird flu following contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus in Texas, state and federal officials said Monday.
The patient’s primary symptom was conjunctivitis, or eye redness. The Texas D... |
| 04.03.2024 | Governor Abbott Provides Update On State Resources, Ongoing Response To Texas Wildfires | TEXAS, March 4 - March 4, 2024 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
Governor Abbott today provided an update on the state's ongoing wildfire response and resources deployed as state and local emergency response personnel continue to fight the hi... |
| 29.02.2024 | New safety rules ahead for toxic gas used to sterilize medical devices | Over the past two years, Madeline Beal has heard frustration and even bewilderment during public meetings about ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that is used to sterilize half of the medical devices in the U.S.
Beal, senior risk communi... |
| 15.02.2024 | Texas remember 3 years after tragic 2021’s Uri storm blackout | The entire state of Texas experienced icy temperatures amid widespread power outages. TEXAS, US, February 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On a day like today but three years ago, in the middle of February 2021, Texas was caught in one of the... |
| 08.02.2024 | Migrant crossings fall sharply along Texas border, shifting to Arizona and California | Eagle Pass, Texas — In recent weeks, the flow of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally has largely shifted away from Texas, concentrating instead in Arizona and California, where immigration officials are now recording roughly 60% of al... |
| 21.11.2023 | America's greenest state is deep deep red | Redeem now
US Highway 83, running between North Dakota and Texas, cuts America in half. The road runs mostly through rural, isolated parts of the country, which has earned it the nickname the "Road to Nowhere."
John Davis, a roofe... |
| 16.11.2023 | Health | How lawmakers in Texas and Florida undermine COVID vaccination efforts | Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Katherine Wells wants to urge her Lubbock, Texas, community to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “That could really save people from severe illness,” said Wells, the city’s public health director.
But she c... |
| 14.08.2023 | COVID-19 cases increasing in Texas | COVID-19 cases are ticking up in Texas — though the overall number of cases remains well below what it was at the height of the pandemic.
Driving the news: EG.5, a descendant of Omicron, was named a variant of concern by the World Health Or... |
| 01.08.2023 | West Nile cases increasing in Texas | Dallas County is reporting a fifth person has been sickened by the West Nile virus, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
Driving the news: A man living in the 75248 ZIP code in northern Dallas has been diagnosed with the West Nile virus neu... |
| 24.07.2023 | Maternal mortality rates rise in Texas | Data: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Map: Tory Lysik /Axios Visuals
Maternal mortality rates in Texas more than doubled between 1999 and 2019, per a new study.
Why it matters: The study — published in JAMA — provides the first... |
| 29.06.2023 | Malaria confirmed in Florida mosquitoes after several human cases | Multiple mosquitoes gathered by authorities in Florida's Sarasota County have tested positive for malaria at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab, as the response has ramped up to stamp out further spread of the illness. Four lo... |
| 29.06.2023 | Roundups: 22 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships | Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This ... |
| 27.06.2023 | The US documented 3 locally transmitted malaria cases for the first time in 20 years. It's not a reason to panic, but sheds a light on the concerns of climate change | A female Anopheles Stephensi mosquito. James Gathany/CDC via AP
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Three cases of malaria spread locally have been identified in Texas and Florida.
The strain, known as P. Vivax, is not considered the deadliest strain of malaria.
As... |
| 26.06.2023 | Malaria cases in Florida and Texas are first locally acquired infections in U.S. in 20 years, CDC warns | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday warned of the return of locally acquired cases of malaria, meaning the infections were not linked to foreign travel and appear to have been transmitted by mosquitoes in the U.S. carry... |
| 20.12.2022 | Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care | Last week, the state of Texas issued a long-awaited report that found at least 118 women in the state died from causes related to pregnancy in 2019. Most of those deaths were preventable. The report’s top recommendation was a familiar but o... |
| 16.12.2022 | FDA issues warning about Texas oysters connected to norovirus outbreak | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising food retailers and restaurants to discard oysters from harvest area TX 1 in Galveston Bay, Texas, U.S.A. due to a norovirus outbreak.
The Texas Department of State Health Services and the Fl... |
| 15.12.2022 | Oysters recalled after norovirus outbreak sickens at least 211 people | Over 200 people have been sickened by a norovirus outbreak linked to raw oysters from Texas, causing the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to issue a recall and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to open an invest... |
| 05.11.2022 | Democrat Beto O'Rourke takes his shot with Texas voters again | Texas' incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott could be facing his closest Democratic challenger ever, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the one-time Democratic star who is risking his second straight election statewide loss in Texas.
Early voting e... |
| 07.10.2022 | PRESS RELEASE: Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council Hears State Agencies’ Responses to Ongoing Fentanyl Crisis | TEXAS, October 7 - October 7, 2022
Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council Hears State Agencies’ Responses to Ongoing Fentanyl Crisis
(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar recently chaired a meeting of the Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council... |
| 14.09.2022 | FDA warns monkeypox could mutate if antiviral drug is overused | The monkeypox virus is only one mutation away from evading a key antiviral drug being used to treat at-risk patients, federal health officials are now warning — and they're urging doctors to be "judicious" in prescribing the sough... |
| 08.09.2022 | REPEAT - TAAT® to be Sold in All 34 Texas Buc-ee’s Stores by Monday September 12 | LAS VEGAS and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TAAT® GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES INC. (CSE: TAAT) (OTCQX: TOBAF) (FRANKFURT: 2TP) (the “Company” or “TAAT®”) is pleased to announce that its flagship product TAAT® will ... |
| 07.09.2022 | TAAT® to be Sold in All 34 Texas Buc-ee’s Stores by Monday September 12 | LAS VEGAS and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TAAT® GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES INC. (CSE: TAAT) (OTCQX: TOBAF) (FRANKFURT: 2TP) (the “Company” or “TAAT®”) is pleased to announce that its flagship product TAAT® will ... |
| 06.01.2022 | Lightspeed Commerce : How to Get a Food Handler's License for Your Restaurant | Out of all the restaurant licenses and permitsyou need to become a restaurant ownerin the US, the food handler's license is one of the most important for your staff.
This is also often referred to as an employee health permit, and it ensure... |
| 09.11.2021 | Unvaccinated people are at least 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 caused by the infectious Delta variant than those who’ve had 2 shots, real-world data suggests | Woman receives her second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site at a senior center on March 29 2021 in San Antonio, Texas. Sergio Flores/Getty Images
Unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 caused by Delta... |
| 30.07.2021 | Ted Cruz says a vaccine mandate is ‘authoritarianism,’ but he supports them in Texas | GOP Sen. Ted Cruz gestures as he speaks to members of the media during the fifth day of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, February 13, 2021. Erin Scott/Reuters
President Biden has said federal workers will have to get ... |
| 21.06.2021 | Houston-Dallas high-speed train still not official but now it has a builder | The high-speed train between Houston and Dallas still needs an official sign-off before it happens, but a builder has been hired for when that day comes.
Texas Central, the developers of the train, have signed a $16 billion contract with We... |
| 21.06.2021 | 3 Houston companies named to semifinals of clean energy competition | Three Houston energy startups are in the running for the $100,000 cash prize in Cleantech.org's GS Beyond Energy Innovation Challenge.
Amperon Holdings, Cemvita Factory, and Veloce Energy are among the competition's 24 semifinalists, which ... |
| 21.06.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from startup and small business support to electric vehicles — recently making headlines in Houston innov... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston EV charging station startup gets ready to roll out services across the country | A Houston startup is revving up the region's — and the country's — supply of charging stations for electric vehicles.
The company, Refuel Electric Vehicle Solutions (REVS), recently installed its first two charging stations. They're at two ... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston expert: 4 questions to ask when hiring employees in other states | A larger share of employees has found themselves working from home, or at least working remote, than ever before and many continue to do so permanently. As employers actively take steps to ensure a strong showing throughout the economic rec... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston space tech company reveals details on its new $40M facility | A Houston-based space tech company focused on sending the first American spacecraft to the Moon since NASA's Apollo program is planning on expanding its presence here on Earth too.
Intuitive Machines announced its plans to move from its cur... |
| 12.05.2021 | 3 Houston startups announce strategic appointments across energy and tech | Three Houston startups have new hires they're excited about.
From new board members to c-level execs, here's who's moving and shaking in Houston innovation.
GoExpedi names senior vice president of sales
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| 12.05.2021 | This Houston school makes the grade as one of the nation’s best private colleges for the value | As bastion of higher learning and innovation, Rice University has racked up no shortage of accolades and appearances on "best-of" lists.
Now, a new report casts Houston's "Ivy League of the South" as a top academic insti... |
| 12.05.2021 | New Houston accelerator leader dives into first cohort | Everything's bigger in Texas, but Kate Evinger is focused on zeroing in on a small group of startups to help them in a Texas-sized way.
As director of gBETA Houston, Evinger says the program, which expanded to Houston in 2019, is geared tow... |
| 11.05.2021 | Health care in a post-pandemic world: Telehealth is here to stay, but so are in-person visits | As medical practitioners were faced with the abrupt arrival of the pandemic, they had to immediately adapt to new technologies and switch to telehealth – fundamentally changing the way healthcare is delivered. During the first few months of... |
| 11.05.2021 | Global accelerator announces 5 startups to its Houston cohort | Five Houston companies have been tapped to participate in a Houston-based, early-stage startup accelerator with a national presence.
The accelerator, gBETA, selected the five Houston companies out of over 85 applicants. The cohort represent... |
| 11.05.2021 | Energy company with U.S. HQ in Houston acquires local business | A renewable energy retailer based in the United Kingdom is once again expanding its presence in Texas with another strategic acquisition.
Octopus Energy US, which is based in Houston, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Hou... |
| 10.05.2021 | Houston ranks among fastest growing tech hubs amid the pandemic, report finds | When Americans think of tech hubs, Silicon Valley or even Austin may initially come to mind. However, Houston appears to be making a play for tech-hub status.
Citing data from career platform LinkedIn, the Axios news website reports that Ho... |
| 10.05.2021 | Energy giant makes Houston sole headquarters in massive move | Power player NRG Energy is laser focused on Houston. The Bayou City will be the energy giant's new sole headquarters; the company will no longer split between Houston and Princeton, New Jersey.
The move to a single headquarters simplifies b... |
| 07.05.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, events not to miss this month, big winne... |
| 07.05.2021 | Houston SaaS startup closes $12M series A funding round with support from local VC | A Houston startup with a software-as-a-service platform for the energy transition has announced it closed a funding round with participation from a local venture capital.
Molecule closed its $12 million series A, and Houston-based Mercury F... |
| 06.05.2021 | Houston school recognized as among the top institutions in the nation | Houston's Rice University continues to burnish its reputation in higher education.
A ranking released May 5 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company that specializes in higher education data, puts Rice at No. 23 among the top colleges ... |
| 05.05.2021 | University of Houston power couple prescribes major gift for college of medicine | University of Houston medical students and staff will receive a gift that's just what the doctor ordered.
A prestigious and longtime UH power couple has bequeathed two major gifts a major gift to the school's burgeoning College of Medicine.... |
| 04.05.2021 | Houston hospital reveals renderings of Austin outpost ahead of groundbreaking | Texas Children's Hospital is working on its first freestanding location in Austin — and the hospital system just released a first look at what the state-of-the-art building will look like.
The new Texas Children's Austin campus — to be loca... |
| 03.05.2021 | These are Houston's 4 best high schools in 2021, says recent report | t's report card time, and four Houston high schools have made the grade, earning top 100 spots in this year's prestigious U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best U.S. High Schools. One even merited a special distinction.
Houston's... |
| 27.04.2021 | New COVID-19 variant potentially resistant to antibodies discovered at Texas A&M | Scientists at the Texas A&M University Global Health Complex identified a new variant of the COVID-19 virus that could present a new challenge to public health, according to a statement.
So far, the new variant, "BV-1," was fo... |
| 27.04.2021 | New innovation hub grows with the addition of 6 Houston startups | The East End Maker Hub in Houston's East End District is growing with the recent addition of six startups.
"All of these companies cite the East End Maker Hub's physical innovation infrastructure, customizable spaces, strategic locatio... |
| 27.04.2021 | 3 reasons why you should add podcasting to your marketing plan, according to this Texas expert | As business leaders or marketers, we're always on the lookout for strategic opportunities to reach our target audiences in meaningful ways and move them to action: To like a post, ask for more information, make a purchase and more. When we ... |
| 23.04.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a luxury car dealership that accepts dog... |
| 22.04.2021 | Texas expert: Energy reliability and climate sustainability are not mutually exclusive | It's no secret that Texas has long been a leader in energy production, but it may surprise you to learn that Texas leads the nation in wind-powered generation, producing 28 percent of all US wind-powered electricity in 2019.
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| 22.04.2021 | Houston startup grows C-suite, Deloitte opens awards apps, SDO names leader, and more innovation news | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been especially busy this year, and for this reason, local startup and tech news may have fallen through some of the cracks.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, local organization... |
| 21.04.2021 | Newly appointed innovation leader calls for more health care collaboration in Houston | Allison Post is a professional dot connector for the Texas Heart Institute. Located in the Texas Medical Center and founded in 1962, THI has long had a history of innovation — from Denton Cooley, THI's founder, performing the first artifici... |
| 21.04.2021 | Houston researchers tap into tech to provide new brain-related health care solutions | Research, perhaps now more than ever, is crucial to expanding and growing innovation in Houston — and it's happening across the city right under our noses.
In InnovationMap's latest roundup of research news, three Houston institutions are w... |
| 21.04.2021 | ExxonMobil announces $100B carbon-capture hub for Houston area | In a move that would be a gamechanger for Houston, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil envisions creating a $100 billion carbon-capture hub along the Houston Ship Channel.
ExxonMobil foresees the Houston Ship Channel being the site of an "inn... |
| 20.04.2021 | Web page or app? Houston expert shares his tips for launching your online platform | One of the biggest decisions you'll have to make as an entrepreneur is whether you should host your product or service on the web, via an app, or through a webapp. In this quick guide, I'll go over a few tips to help you narrow down the opt... |
| 20.04.2021 | Houston again anointed the most diverse city in the U.S. by new report | Diversity is currently at the forefront of the U.S. conversation, as anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked nearly 150 percent in 2021 and the Derek Chauvin trial currently broils in Minneapolis.
But now, a new study sheds some good news on the... |
| 20.04.2021 | New Houston accelerator supporting BIPOC in aerospace announces inaugural cohort | A new accelerator program that is focused on aerospace innovation and supporting entrepreneurs who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color has announced its first cohort.
The Ion's Aerospace Innovation Accelerator for Minority Business E... |
| 16.04.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, self-driving pizza deliveries launching,... |
| 16.04.2021 | Houston is poised to lead 5G growth in Texas, according to a new report | Based on one key measure, Houston sits at the forefront of a telecom revolution that could spark a regional economic impact of more than $30 billion.
Data published recently by the Texas Comptroller's Office points out that as of last Novem... |
| 14.04.2021 | Growing Italian company with U.S. HQ in Houston launches new industrial-scale 3D printing | An Italian-American manufacturer of 3D parts and printers with its U.S. headquarters in Houston is touting what's billed as a first-of-its-kind innovation — an innovation that's helping drive the need for more local workers.
Roboze recently... |
| 14.04.2021 | Texans among the most stressed-out people in America, says new study | No wonder nearly 40 percent of Texans have packed on the pounds during the coronavirus pandemic. It turns out Texas ranks as the 10th most stressed-out state in the country.
A new study by personal finance website WalletHub indicates Texas'... |
| 14.04.2021 | Diversity-focused nonprofit leader announces new VC partner, calls for Houston to be sports tech hub | For 15 years, Ashley DeWalt has been working within the sports and entertainment industry — particularly within branding and consulting. Now, as managing director for DivInc, he's taking his business acumen and relationship-focused style to... |
| 01.04.2021 | Rice University rises with plan to significantly grow student body | Houston's list-topping Ivy League of the South hub is set to see significant growth. Rice University's board of trustees has approved a plan to enlarge its undergraduate student body by 20 percent, the school announced. That means some addi... |
| 01.04.2021 | Houston startup with life-saving innovation receives $2M grant | A $2 million federal grant will enable Houston-based PolyVascular to launch human trials of what it hails as the first polymer-based heart valve for children.
In conjunction with the grant, Dr. Will Clifton has joined the medical device com... |
| 31.03.2021 | Longtime Houston tech entrepreneur prioritizes giving back to ecosystem | When Chris Howard founded his technology consulting firm in 1997, there wasn't a tech scene in town. But as the company grew over the past 20-plus years, so did Houston's innovation ecosystem — and Howard had a front-row seat for it all.
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| 31.03.2021 | Houston fintech unicorn raises $300M in series C | Houston's first "unicorn," fintech company HighRadius, is growing up fast.
On March 30, HighRadius, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, reported it raised a $300 million Series C round of funding that values the company at $3... |
| 30.03.2021 | Houston expert: Now is the time to diversify your workforce in the name of innovation | Pop quiz: What's the best way to introduce and nurture a culture of innovation in your organization?
Give all employees a VR headset
Mandate every team leader offer one new idea per quarter
Add the word "innovate" to the organizat... |
| 30.03.2021 | Greentown Houston announces grand opening, clean energy accelerators open apps, and more innovation news | It's been a crazy start to 2021 with the innovation ecosystem being especially busy. For this reason, Houston innovation news may have fallen through some of the cracks.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, Greentown ... |