Texas health

Just 2% of Texas voters call abortion the state’s most pressing problem. Advocates are reframing the issue as one of reproductive healthcare that affects families’ pocketbooks.

Lawmakers and experts pin the blame for rising insurance costs on health companies consolidating and creating less competition.

Priorities for Republican leadership last legislative session have either been stuck in the courts or left to linger in the state rulemaking process.

State leaders and pro-life groups are siding with 2-year-old Annelise Camp’s family, who are suing to stop Texas Children’s Hospital from testing her for brain death.

Starting April 1, Texans will no longer be allowed to use food stamps to buy sweetened beverages and candy.

In April, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center hosted a tour of a clinic built in a retrofitted shipping container in Burton, Texas. It's the latest collaboration in an ongoing effort to bring community-run clinics to rural areas, where access is harder to achieve.

Health care is the largest and fastest growing industry in Texas — but the workforce isn't growing fast enough to meet increasing demand. Workforce shortages are getting worse, according to testimony from state officials during a House Committee on Public Health hearing.

The two Texas residents monitored for hantavirus have been cleared by Texas Department of State Health Services.

A new report shows Texas leading the country in its rate of uninsured children under 6.

From a West Texas measles outbreak to rising vaccine exemptions statewide, families of immunocompromised children depend on herd immunity, which is slowly eroding.