Health care

Rural Texans like the places where they live — the environment, the pace, the lifestyle — but they'd like to have access to better jobs, a new poll finds.

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A leading anti-vaccine group claims that day cares are breaking the law by denying kids who haven't been vaccinated. Experts say the group is misinterpreting the law.

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This year, there's no penalty for people who don't sign up for insurance, and the federal government isn't spending as much to promote enrollment.

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Immigration and border security continue to top the list of Texas voters' concerns, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

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With early voting underway, health care is enduring as a central issue in Texas' most competitive contests for the U.S. House.

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The state’s Drug Utilization Review Board is taking public comment on whether to expand Medicaid’s preferred drug list to include medication-assisted treatments for opioid addiction besides Suboxone.

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Several members of the new coalition are also part of a legal challenge to Austin's paid sick leave ordinance.

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A 2011 lawsuit over Texas' beleaguered child welfare system has ping-ponged back and forth between an appeals court in New Orleans and a district court in Corpus Christi.

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Texas Health and Human Services Commission officials said in an email that “it has become clear that the Heidi Group is unable to come into compliance” and that the organization would no longer be part of the state’s Family Planning Program or the Healthy Texas Women program as of Dec. 11.

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Support from family and community appear to shield Latinos from rising suicide rates, researchers say.

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Staffers are leaving Adult Protective Services because of increased workloads, lack of attention from the Legislature and a significant pay gap between them and their Child Protective Services counterparts.

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A North Texas family is fighting to keep their 9-year-old daughter on a ventilator, though her doctors have said she is brain-dead. But a controversial, unusual Texas law gives doctors and hospitals broad decision-making power.

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Proponents say the proposal will save the government money. But critics say that especially in Texas, it will cause “chilling effects" that could keep citizens away from welfare programs.

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The anti-abortion group served more than 3,300 clients under the state's Healthy Texas Women program and Family Planning Program, far less than the nearly 70,000 people the organization projected when it won state contracts.

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Watch O'Rourke and Cruz virtually debate issues like immigration, guns and health care.

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Justin Nelson, a Democrat running for attorney general, is positioning himself as the champion of protections for pre-existing conditions, one of the most popular provisions of the landmark health care law.

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O’Rourke has been closing the gap over the last several months, but this is the first poll that puts him ahead of Cruz.

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Marissa Evans and Chris Essig's investigation into unusually high rates of maternal deaths in Texas has won an explanatory journalism award from the Online News Association.

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Texas grassroots health groups got $5 million less than last year for the navigator program, which helps them enroll hard-to-reach populations in the nation's least insured state.

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Critics say doing so would risk the coverage of tens of millions.

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