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A seven-year, $16 million research initiative to develop a test for chronic traumatic encephalopathy will move forward at several universities, even without previously planned funding from the National Football League.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Kristi Henderson, the vice president for virtual care and innovation at Seton Healthcare Family in Austin.

Middle-aged homeless people often have health issues typically seen among much older populations and their mental health needs often remain untreated because the existing healthcare infrastructure is too small to meet the need.

The state’s largest insurer has proposed rate increases of 57 percent and 59 percent for plans it offers on the healthcare exchanges, saying it has lost money on exchange patients in past years.

This spring, the first patient in Texas received a transplant using a lung that was tested and refurbished with new technology known as ex-vivo lung perfusion.

School choice might just be the motivation legislators need to tackle the daunting task of education financing reform, writes former Dallas County GOP Chairman Wade Emmert, now a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation.

Barring the unforeseen, it appears that most of Texas’ Republican delegation will unite in support of Trump at the National Convention in Cleveland, writes former Texas GOP Chairman Tom Pauken. But this has been a year of huge surprises on the national political front.