Vol 3, Issue 4

Senate Health and Human Services Committee members voted unanimously Wednesday morning to send a bill aimed at overhauling the state's child welfare system to the full Senate for a vote.

U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled that Texas clinics affiliated with Planned Parenthood can continue to care for patients under the state’s Medicaid program.

Advocates and families testified all day in front of House Human Services members as legislators buckled down to look at key bills that would overhaul how the state takes care of endangered children.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Michael Morrisey, head of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Texas A&M University's School of Public Health.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Health of Nations. 

Organizations that represent scientists are flexing their political muscles this year by participating in an Earth Day “March for Science” rally in Washington, D.C.

A new statewide registry to collect data from middle and high school athletes aims to help Texas gain insight about who gets concussions and why.

More than 80 percent of Americans said it's important that Medicaid expansion is included with an Obamacare replacement, according to a recent poll.

Some foreign-born doctors working in the U.S. are worried that new federal travel restrictions will limit their ability to continue working if they travel home to see their families.

Heroin overdose deaths surpassed gun homicides in 2015, indicating that the nation's drug epidemic is taking an unprecedented toll on Americans.

After being thrust into a maelstrom of emotion from a deadly shooting in Dallas last July, a trauma surgeon still thinks about the families of the officers who were shot.