health care

As health care workers face increased levels of pandemic burnout, the Biden Administration is looking to help states recruit and retain clinicians in underserved areas.

The law bans nearly all abortions, and doctors providing pregnancy care are hoping for more clarity soon, as legal challenges continue.

A businessman from Dallas got a PCR test for the coronavirus at a suburban emergency room. The charge for his test was "egregious" but not illegal, say health care analysts. Here's what happened.

More than 2 million Americans are uninsured because they live in the 12 states that didn't expand Medicaid. 60% are people of color. Will Congress help by including them in the new spending bill?

People changed their lives considerably early in the pandemic to avoid getting sick. But even if they escaped the virus, COVID-19 still made an impact.

The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, gives new mothers six months of postpartum Medicaid coverage instead of two. That’s less than many advocates and some lawmakers wanted.

Texas GOP lawmakers failed to restrict transition-related health care options for transgender Texas kids earlier this year. But Gov. Greg Abbott plans to enact limits through executive action.

The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, in what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year.

The agency will work to eliminate health disparities in the state when it comes to race, ethnicity and geography, among other things.

Ramonna Matthews Polk says she's worried what will happen now that her rural town of Bowie doesn't have a local hospital or the emergency room. Bowie is one of several Texas towns being featured as part of an ongoing, year-long investigation into the declining access to healthcare in rural parts of the state.

Run-of-the-mill runny noses and coughs are back, after a break during the pandemic's height, when so many of us were circulating less and wearing masks. Here's how to keep household viruses at bay.

Texas HHSC is holding three public hearings where Texans have a chance to comment on the Medicaid extension as part of the application process.