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Doctors who feel burned out are more likely to cut back on hours or leave medicine entirely. This costs hospitals and health care organizations billions each year, new research finds.

In their new book Compassionomics, two doctors review the field of compassion research. Their finding? When physicians take time to connect and express care, both patients and doctors benefit.

From Texas Standard: A group of U.S. health organizations, including the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at...

Once a tiny specialty that drew mostly psychiatrists, addiction medicine is expanding its accredited training to include residents from specialties like family medicine who see it as a calling.

The opioid epidemic killed more than 1,300 Texans in 2016. The next year, state lawmakers passed legislation to mandate a prescription-monitoring...

Andrea Hernandez ended up in a McAllen hospital after a drunken driver hit the car she was in. “I basically got amnesia because of how hard I hit my...

Texas has almost a dozen medical schools, but it also has a rural healthcare worker shortage. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is set to vote…

Undocumented patients with kidney disease often can't get treatment unless they are in a state of emergency — this bothers clinicians who want to treat all patients equally.

Medical school students today are trained to diagnose complicated diseases, they’re rarely trained to engineer the solutions themselves. Soon, Texas A&M…

Consulting a doctor by phone, text or video is becoming popular. And in Texas, the debate over safety and access to health care is heating up. Over the…

Text messages from your doctor are just the start. Millennial physicians are taking over hospital wards and doctors’ offices – and they’re bringing new…

There’s about to be a new home for doctor entrepreneurs in Dallas-Fort Worth. April 24th marks the launch of the new chapter of the Society of Physician…