Vol 2, Issue 17

A group led by an anti-abortion advocate received $1.6 million in state funding from a program recently created to help women find health care services paid for by the state.

Students who need help dealing with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues often must wait weeks to see a counselor at Texas' major public universities.

A baby has died in Harris County from complications related to the Zika virus, local public health officials said Tuesday. The death is the first known fatality in Texas linked to the virus.

Dozens of health care providers, funeral directors and reproductive rights activists packed a hearing before state health officials Thursday to criticize a proposed new rule that would require that all fetal remains be cremated or buried.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Baker Harrell, the CEO of It’s Time Texas, a nonprofit organization devoted to studying and promoting health in Texas.

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

Obama administration officials, noting congressional inaction on Zika funding, said they will transfer federal dollars from other programs to fight the spread of the mosquito-borne virus.

The National Institutes of Health will send $11 million to North Texas to fund an interdisciplinary approach to advanced scientific research into kidney cancer diagnosis and treatment.

The number of newborns displaying withdrawal symptoms from opioid drugs quadrupled between 1999 and 2013, a likely result of the growing problem of abuse of painkilling drugs.

A new study finds that almost 20 percent of those released from hospital emergency rooms have vital signs that are not stabilized, indicating they may be medically unprepared for discharge.

Low-income people in Arkansas and Kentucky – where Medicaid was expanded to cover everyone below a certain income threshold – are healthier than their peers in Texas.

A study that looked at patient outcomes by race found that although blacks are less likely to be diagnosed with melanoma, they are also less likely than whites to survive it when it occurs.