Sarah Schroeder

While Texas hospitals and birthing centers adopt baby-friendly policies to encourage breastfeeding, community support is still lacking.

A new study that looked at the impact of genetics on cancer found that some women with triple-negative breast cancer didn’t have an accurate understanding of their cancer risk because they were unclear about their ancestry.

A Japanese medical biologist won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on autophagy, the process by which cells digest and recycle themselves.

Two new programs launched by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will provide financial awards designed to broaden the demographic makeup of scientific researchers as well as widen the pool of institutions that tend to attract top talent.

Blood testing company Theranos will close its labs and reduce its workforce by 40 percent in the wake of federal scrutiny over the accuracy of its testing methods.

Female medical school students say they face continuous gender bias from colleagues and supervisors, while female faculty still lag behind in pay and promotions.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

In this week’s Trib+Health, we interview Gail Eckhardt, an oncologist and cancer researcher, about her appointment as director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School.

Maternal death rates are higher in Texas than the rest of the U.S. — as well as in most industrialized countries — but state officials have declined to release data that could be used to understand and reverse the trend.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Charles Cox, a pediatric neurosurgeon at UTHealth and co-director of the Red Duke Memorial Hermann Trauma Institute.