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The Texas Medical Board took issue with a former South Texas congressional candidate calling himself a doctor. He says he never claimed to practice medicine, and the board is infringing on his political speech.

House Bill 2038 makes it easier for foreign doctors to get licensed in Texas — but not all are allowed.

Dozens of American doctors and nurses who’ve volunteered in Gaza gathered at Parkland Hospital in Dallas Thursday to call for a ceasefire amid the humanitarian crisis they’ve witnessed firsthand.

The board's guidance is aimed at providing some clarity to physicians working within the narrow emergency medical exception to Texas' abortion ban.

The Texas Medical Board is meeting Friday to consider rules to guide doctors on the exceptions in the state’s abortion ban. The rules could clarify when doctors can legally perform emergency abortions, but confusion and fear over prosecution persists.

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have become popular as people struggle with weight gain. Dr. Jaime Almandoz of UT Southwestern explains how they work and who should use them.

The World Doctors Orchestra has played in more than 20 countries and has 1,800 member-musicians around the world. The North Texas members worked to bring it here this week.

Dr. Austin Dennard is an OB-GYN who is going to give birth very soon. She also had to leave Texas to terminate a previous pregnancy because the fetus had a fatal condition.

Immunocompromised people and those over the age of 50 can now get a second COVID-19 booster shot.

While some Texas politicians have labeled gender-affirming care for trans kids “child abuse,” two doctors in Dallas say nothing is changing about their practice.

The virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. health care workers; others could face lasting mental scars. It's “the time when we’re needed most," one doctor said, "and we’re burned out.”

The Texas Academy of Family Physicians is also asking legislators to expand Medicaid insurance coverage to low-income adults and restore funding for a program that studied racial health disparities.