A UT Health San Antonio researcher confirms that how magnesium gets into immune system cells can determine whether they fight oral cancer or support tumor growth. The discovery offers hope for new ways to prevent and treat the disease.

A new study points out success stories — and potential obstacles — to bringing vaccines to the world's children.

At the beginning of June, the Texas Department of State Health Services asked all programs funded by the CDC’s HIV Prevention and Surveillance program to pause because it hadn’t heard anything from the federal agency about whether it was going to keep paying. This week, the CDC said it will pay at least until the end of the year.

Siding with the government on Friday, the court upheld the Affordable Care Act, allowing the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to continue determining which services will be available free of cost to Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court allowed South Carolina to remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio want to give police and EMTs tools other than restraint when responding to an autistic person in crisis.

There were no new measles outbreak cases to report in Texas in the last week, and the number of counties on the Texas active outbreak list has dropped to two.

Sae Joon Park left for South Korea on Monday. His removal order was the result of drug possession and bail jumping charges from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from untreated PTSD.

The Republican leader cited concerns about federal funding for the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program. The decision is a setback for struggling families and anti-hunger advocates.

The social media platform TikTok recently banned a hashtag called #SkinnyTok after European regulators warned it was promoting extreme weight loss. But eliminating this kind of content is not easy.