The purpose of October 18 is to raise awareness of options available for improving health and well-being during midlife.

The hospital would not directly answer KPRC 2′s questions about the layoffs. A spokesperson would only refer us to an article from the Houston Chronicle where the hospital stated cutting five percent of its workforce eliminates roughly 1,000 jobs out of about 20,000 employees. Lower patient volumes and financial challenges were contributing factors to the cuts.

In general, we are not recommending testing for all children because they dont need to go to work. It probably wont help you prevent that many infections.Since kids and teens seem to do well with the virus, they say they'd rather preserve the tests for people who really need them. They advise parents to be on the lookout for symptoms to know when to keep kids and teens home and remember symptoms might be more subtle among them. Pediatricians say the symptoms dont last as long as they do in adults. However, Garcia said the truth is the young kids dont have the cough strength to propel respiratory droplets as far as adults.