Health care

We're livestreaming our two-day event in Houston exploring the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Texas' largest cities.

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Join us for our second Tenth Talks event featuring policy experts illuminating their views on the future of health care in Texas.

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We're livestreaming our conversation in Canyon on rural health care, moderated by Texas Tribune Managing Editor Corrie MacLaggan.

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The Texas Tribune is traveling to Houston for two days of conversations on urban Texas — the first of 10 major statewide events commemorating our 10th anniversary year.

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The president plans to nominate Stephen Hahn, the chief medical officer of Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

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If passed, Proposition 6 on the Nov. 5 ballot would allow the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to take out an additional $3 billion in debt, doubling its initial bonding authority since its creation in 2007.

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Five towns have passed ordinances aiming to outlaw abortion. Critics say a legal challenge is likely.

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President Trump said the new rule, issued late on Friday, is intended to “protect the availability of health care benefits for Americans."

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"This health threat is serious enough that I want to see the ban include every building, outside space, parking lot, garage and laboratory within the Texas A&M System," Chancellor John Sharp wrote in a Tuesday memorandum.

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Changes to the federal "public charge" rule are set to take effect in October, but fear and confusion are already causing immigrants to drop benefits.

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The South Texas congressman cited the debate — during which Castro and Biden tangled — as he threw his support to the former vice president.

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The showdown early in the debate came after Biden criticized the "Medicare for All" health care plan touted by U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

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For the second year in a row, the number of Texans without health insurance increased, and fewer people enrolled in Medicaid.

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Two floodgate failures on 90-year-old Guadalupe River Valley dams — and the plan to lower the remaining four — are highlighting Texas' underfunded, aging flood infrastructure.

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Senate Bill 21, authored by Sen. Joan Huffman, a Republican from Houston, made Texas the 16th state to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21.

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The state’s approach stands in stark contrast to that of Australia, where leaders have successfully pushed a nationwide program that has made a sizable dent in cervical cancer rates.

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The lawmaker, a doctor by training, will oversee a network of six health institutions with four medical schools, two dental schools and three nursing schools.

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The Texas Pregnancy Care Network, the largest recipient of funding under the state's controversial Alternatives to Abortion program, is poised to receive millions more under the proposal.

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In this edition of the TribCast, Patrick talks to Matthew, Emma and Cassi about the latest developments in the Texas-led challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the University of Texas System's efforts to make tuition more affordable and the U.S. Senate race.

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Jennifer Walker Elrod, a federal appeals court judge appointed by George W. Bush, asked the majority of the questions in a two-hour session Tuesday on Texas' lawsuit.

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