Polo Rocha

With a new NCI designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, new brain and bioinformatics centers, and an $800 million hospital open for less than a year, UT Southwestern Medical Center has been in growth mode.

The value of health care acquisitions this year has already hit $356 billion, topping the $326.1 billion in health care deals last year.

Federal regulators have signed off on a new drug that lowers cholesterol, a development that could bring an important but costly new medical tool to fighting heart disease.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Bethanie Van Horne, the assistant director of state initiatives at UTHealth’s Children’s Learning Institute.

In a breakthrough with implications for new therapies, scientists have discovered five groups of prostate cancer, each with different DNA signatures.

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth all ranked in multiple categories in the 2015-16 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital rankings.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Health Gap.

In an editorial published in the Mayo Clinic’s medical journal, more than 100 oncologists from the nation’s top cancer hospitals raised concerns over increasingly high cancer drug prices and asked regulators to address the issue.