health care

After some Texans recently waited several days to get their COVID-19 test results, officials said turnaround times in some parts of the state have now improved.

Hospital workers across the state are weary, burned out, and generally frustrated by what appears to be another strain on an already exhausted workforce that could be reaching its limits.

American Public Media Research Lab data shows that 24 rural hospitals have closed in Texas since 2005 — the most of any state in the U.S.

People with mental health needs who are arrested for nonviolent offenses can increase jail overcrowding – and they often don’t get the medical care they need. But Dallas County commissioners are looking hard at a different approach.

Texans have more and cheaper 2022 health insurance plans to choose from on healthcare.gov.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had called the mandate “an unprecedented federal vaccine decree” on health care workers.

Doctors and health officials in Texas say the omicron variant of COVID-19 could be found in the state within the next couple of weeks — if it’s not already here.

At least 770,000 Texans are ineligible for both Medicaid and health insurance subsidies through the state-run marketplaces.

The city of Dallas is partnering with the nonprofit Advance Community Fund to bring a new urgent care clinic to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in South Dallas.

A Houston vaccine team would like a U.S. distributor but for now focuses its efforts abroad to inoculate those in countries where COVID-19 variants surface more quickly.

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.