Vol 3, Issue 8

No child is supposed to sleep or spend more than a few hours at the Harris County Youth Services Center's Point of Entry in Houston. But Texas' foster care placement crisis has forced some of the state's most troubled teens to sleep in a place that isn't equipped to care for them. 

Texas hospitals and abortion clinics would have to bury or cremate fetal remains under a measure that passed out of a House committee on Tuesday. 

Women's health organizations in Texas say a President Trump-signed measure targeting abortion providers will not have an affect here — yet. But it could in the coming years. 

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Joshua Samuels, a pediatric nephrologist with the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Strange Contagion.

The video from our conversation on the potential impact on Texas of the end of the Affordable Care Act with Anne Dunkelberg, Chip Roy and Avik Roy is now available online. To view, click here.

Mobilized by proposed federal funding cuts, scores of scientists and science lovers marched in communities around the world on Earth Day.

Researchers are increasingly worried that a warming planet creates a welcoming environment for the spread of tropical diseases.

A new app created by a Dallas doctor aims at increasing the number of minority doctors by linking minority students interested in medical careers with admissions officers.

Scientists studying the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system have discovered a new system that can alter disease-causing mutations within human and mouse genomes.

A new movie looking at the life of a black patient whose cancerous cells were used for research and profit without her consent has prompted some doctors to reflect on racial disparities in health care.

A new study shows that a common virus could trigger celiac disease among those with a genetic predisposition to it.