A federal judge recently ruled that Texas must give defendants who are mentally incompetent to stand trial a state hospital bed within 21 days.

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors.

An Alaskan surrogate has traveled to Texas for legal protection after a California couple has refused treatment for a severe heart condition.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record.

Missy Mazzoli's opera “The Galloping Cure” explores the opioids epidemic through a haunting allegory.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

Albertsons has recalled four ready-to-eat products containing jalapeños supplied by Taylor Farms due to a salmonella outbreak traced to a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, and distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors.

Traveling with a baby can be daunting, especially on long-distance flights and international trips.

In a landmark ruling against Meta, a New Mexico judge likened the company’s social media platforms to factories.

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is zeroing in on her psychiatric care before she killed her three children.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died.

A Senate committee has voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congolese health authorities have quarantined nearly 200 boat passengers near Kinshasa.

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

Military officials say the majority of American troops wounded in the Iran war have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

Clinics with better internet connections are now offering telehealth services to patients who can’t do it from their homes.

A Houston-area physician has been sentenced to 12.5 years in federal prison after admitting she operated an illegal prescription scheme out of her Kingwood clinic that prosecutors say fueled the distribution of more than 3 million opioid pills.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is still spreading faster than efforts to track it, according to the head of the World Health Organization.

The federal government is taking steps to shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life.

Galveston's Seawall raccoons have become a little too comfortable around people — and officials say feeding them is to blame. With multiple bite reports already on the books and a serious rabies risk in play, officials are urging visitors to enjoy the wildlife from a safe distance.

Months before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, the family's former nanny said she saw her deal with significant weight loss, insomnia, and postpregnancy mental health issues.

Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce.

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics, alleging the organization may have promoted childhood vaccines for financial gain.

The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Destination Healthy Skin RV will offer free, full-body skin cancer screenings at Discovery Green in Houston on September 17.

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress will be put to the test this week.

Finding affordable healthcare in the Houston area may soon become easier thanks to a new online tool launched by Harris County Public Health and the Houston Health Department.