Madlin Mekelburg

With a record influx of Spanish-speaking families, educators in Rogers, Ark., are integrating English language students and encouraging them to take high-level courses, resulting in improved test scores for all students.

A new report from the New Media Consortium suggests that education policymakers and community members should be considering an alternative to high-cost, low-speed Internet providers.

The Mediterranean diet, already shown to be beneficial for reducing risk of Alzheimer’s, may help keep aging brains more youthful.

Common skin prick tests used to diagnose food allergies cause “false positives’’ in a number of tests, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.

A new pancreatic cancer therapy from Merrimack Pharmaceutical Inc. was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, marking the company’s first drug to get regulatory clearance.

State officials told Planned Parenthood affiliates they were no longer eligible to receive Medicaid funding because of a controversial video of Planned Parenthood officials discussing fetal tissue.

The American Cancer Society changed its recommendations for how often women over 40 should get mammograms, further stoking concerns about the potential costs and perceived benefits of less frequent testing.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Adventures in Human Being.

Eight hospitals in North Texas were named to US News & World Report’s “most connected’’ list for 2015-16, which identified 159 hospitals nationwide as best in terms of “clinical connectedness, patient safety and patient engagement.’’