Christine Ayala

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.

Six years after he explored the high cost of medical care in McAllen in “The Cost Conundrum,” The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande returns and finds improvement has been made in cutting Medicare costs in the city.

Patients at Fort Worth’s Moncrief Cancer Institute now have access to comprehensive cancer care through the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in North Texas.

Global spending on cancer drugs hit $100 billion last year, prompted by new and patented drugs, broader insurance coverage and aging populations. That figure is up more than 10 percent since 2013.

Johnson & Johnson has appointed a leading bioethicist to head a panel to determine how to handle requests from people who are critically ill and want access to promising drugs before they are approved.

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.

In his new book, Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms, H. Richard Milner addresses the need to openly confront issues of race and racism in schools.

School districts must designate a Title IX coordinator to ensure students know their rights and that school administrators know their responsibilities under this landmark federal law.