AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission received federal approval to extend the deadline for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in Travis County to apply for ...

Texas is poised to lead the country in an initiative to inform denizens of what’s in their food. Food industry experts say it ...

UTSA Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Heather Shipley has named Heather Trepal as vice provost for ...

"We are seeing the proliferation of vaccine hesitancy, with a pronounced partisan split," a health expert told Newsweek.

pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Watch President Donald Trump and ‘Make America Healthy Again’ commission leaders discuss the ...

Territorial Epidemiologist Dr. Esther Ellis provides an update on measles during the first in a series of bimonthly news briefings centered on health and human services. (Source file photo) Thursday ...

The agency's main social media channels have come under new ownership of the Department of Health and Human Services ... some of the CDC's most essential publications. The CDC's Morbidity and ...

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Capriglione also asked Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Cecile E. Young to phase out Superior, which has delivered Medicaid in Texas for 25 years, from its contracts and cut ...

The House voted 87-58 to send it to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.(Azul Sordo / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN — A proposal requiring health insurers that cover gender-affirming care to also cover adverse ...

"My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant," the director of national public health said Wednesday during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

The Source: Information in this article comes from the Texas Department of State Health Services update on May 13, 2025. Information on measles comes from the Centers for Disease Control.