Christine Ayala

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Epic Measures.

For stroke patients, a new procedure called endovascular rescue therapy may be an alternative for those who cannot take traditional “clot-busting’’ drugs because of another medication.

More than half of Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery do some form of preoperative test, which experts call unnecessary, according to a recent study.

Despite constant change and last year’s Ebola crisis, not-for-profit health care systems in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are thriving financially in one of the most competitive markets in the country.

Fourteen U.S. cancer centers are partnering with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system to try to speed up the process of formulating treatment options for cancer patients based on volumes of data.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Next Wave.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Antonietta Quigg, an oceanography professor and associate vice president for research and graduate studies at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Nine states, including Texas, currently offer a “seal of biliteracy” on high school diplomas for graduates who have demonstrated proficiency in a second language. But experts wonder whether the trend is necessary.

Since its introduction in 2012, passing rates and average scores for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR tests, have failed to improve.