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Many confuse hospice and palliative care. They're similar, but a North Texas doctor explains how palliative care can improve the quality of life for patients with serious illnesses.

About 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by healthy lifestyle choices and preventive medicine. Here's a tool to gauge your brain care and track your progress.

Lenice Arias, 76, constantly worried about her health. As an older adult, she knew she was prone to experience a decline in her well-being as she continued to age. In an effort to stay healthy, Arias began to search for a specific type of doctor who could care for her needs: a geriatrician.

Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were preventable.

A majority of Texans said they skipped or put off some form of medical treatment in 2023 because they couldn’t afford it, according to a survey published this week by the Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation.

Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion.

AT&T workers are on strike across the south. Their union says the Dallas-based company refuses to bargain on a new contract with higher wages and health care benefits.

Texas law allows doctors to terminate ectopic pregnancies, but both women say they were denied care until it was too late.

A federal judge has taken the Texas’ foster care system to task for 13 years. Reforms have been made. Now armed with private legal fire power, the state wants the judge off the case.

In two lawsuits, the families of two hospital workers say Nestor Hernandez, Methodist Hospitals of Dallas and the Texas parole board share blame for the murders.

The Fort Worth-based hospital system says the state's denial of a new Medicaid contract for the Cook Children's Health Plan will hurt the families it serves.

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