Vol 3, Issue 9

The Healthy Texas Women Program is the state’s second attempt at reimagining how to provide health services for low-income women without organizations that provide abortions at some of their locations.

On its second try, the U.S. House passed a Republican-backed health care reform bill by a narrow margin.

Public health advocates want a state task force focused on Texas' rising maternal mortality rates to study how race, bias, prejudice and socioeconomics affect care for pregnant black women — who are disproportionately affected. 

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Xiang Zhang, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology at the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine. 

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights A Journey with Panic.

U.S. House Republicans approved major health care legislation that repeals much of Obamacare, but preserves the ban on insurers limiting coverage for pre-existing conditions. The measure now heads to the Senate.

Opponents of the measles vaccine have dissuaded parents from having their children vaccinated in Minnesota, where a measles outbreak is running rampant in the close-knit Somali community.

Urgent care centers are providing cancer patients, who often have vulnerable immune systems, an alternative that avoids the ER and hospital admission.

Consumers can now administer their own tests to diagnose risk for 10 diseases, but doctors warn that determining disease risk is much harder than with other tests.

Unprotected sun exposure in moderation can help people with a Vitamin D deficiency, a recent study shows.

A jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $110 million to a woman who said the company's talcum products gave her ovarian cancer.