Texas health & human services

The State of Texas is giving a controversial anti-abortion program a hefty new influx in funding, reports The Texas Tribune. The program, known as…

In recent years, the Texas Legislature has mounted an aggressive push to defund Planned Parenthood. The effort reached an impasse last month when the US…

Over the past seven years Colorado has nearly halved its teen birth rate. Texas, too, has seen its teen birth rate decline, just like most of the US. But…

The Observer has published a thoughtful examination of what it means to be a legal guardian in Texas. When all other efforts have been exhausted,…

A new lawsuit brought by a group of intellectually-disabled people in Texas accuses the state of routinely “warehousing” the disabled in nursing homes,…

Last week HPPR reported on Texas’s plan to slash $350 million in funding for pediatric therapy services for children with disabilities. The idea was…

Last year the State of Texas slashed $350 million in funding for pediatric therapy services for children with disabilities. Parents of disabled children…

Texas health officials have deemed Zika “the virus from Hell.” As summer approaches, efforts are underway to combat the virus, reports The Austin American…

Texas health officials are working to consolidate two of the state’s main women’s health programs, according to The Texas Tribune. The Texas Health and…