Health

Like it or not, we're all getting older. With age comes different needs to keep ourselves and our loved ones healthy, and that's what the Healthy Aging Conference is all about. Celebrating its 21st year, the Healthy Aging Conference is the only regional conference devoted exclusively to education and health screening for senior adults and caregivers...

Guys, I know we don't want to think about it, but when we reach a certain age, there are health issues that we should be concerned about. Prostate cancer is at the top of that list, and there's a free Men's Health Breakfast scheduled for Thursday, June 7th to help address just that...

Having worked with the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center here in Victoria quite a bit over the years, we know how important it is to give blood. The need for this precious fluid is ongoing, but sometimes it's difficult to see how it affects people we know, our friends and neighbors. ...

Victoria residents need to be aware that the city will be switching the public water system to a free chlorine process for a month which may affect dialysis patients and other residents. This Sunday (April 1st), the city will switch to the process, which is expected to improve water quality in the city...

In this world of fast food and instant gratification, it's easy to blow your diet and put on a few extra pounds. Take it from me, I never met a midnight snack I didn't like. How fat are Texans in general? According to the financial website WalletHub, not that bad compared to the rest of the country...

The flu epidemic in Texas continues. A Dallas man will have his fingers amputated and a Forth Worth man has had both of his feet and his fingers amputated due to complications from the flu.

Apparently it’s quite simple: exercise reduces a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

If by chance, you get caught in a flash flood, here's how to handle it.

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

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...

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