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The Dallas County Health and Human Services and Parkland Health 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment identifies several priority areas, including behavioral and mental health needs.

Researchers at UTD's Center for Advanced Pain Studies are making progress on ways to treat persistent pain without opioids, which can be dangerous and addictive.

Existing data suggests extreme heat can take a toll on patients who live with heart failure. The study at UT Health Presbyterian Dallas seeks answers and solutions.

Some Texans on SNAP say the ban on using food stamps to buy sugary drinks and candy prevents quick fixes to low blood sugar conditions.

RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, activity is higher than it was at the same time last year. Texas is extending access to immunizations for infants and toddlers until the end of the month in response to "persistent" infections.

Texas has a 91% Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, accuracy rate — which could mean the state will be responsible for more than $700 million in benefits costs. If Texas has to cover part of the benefits costs, it would be the first time since the program started in the 1960s.

In an eight-hour committee hearing focused on fraud in social services programs, Texas lawmakers heard updates on how state agencies are responding to calls for stronger anti-fraud measures in programs like Medicaid and the Child Care Services program. The Wednesday hearing of the Senate Health and Human Services committee also included more than 50 Texans sharing concerns with state policymakers.

The allegations that the late farmer workers leader sexually abused and assaulted women and children have shocked many in North Texas' Hispanic communities, and stirred conversations about generational trauma among some women.

The new COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is being monitored by epidemiologists — but it doesn't account for a major surge of cases yet.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office said has launched investigations into "dozens" of Medicaid providers for alleged fraud — based on data released by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. In a statement released Tuesday, Paxton's office did not specify which providers, or how many, would be investigated.

Alongside a plethora of services, Nurture & Thrive looks to give Black families a brave space to ask important questions, organizers said.

A Dallas cardiologist explains why and how doctors should now begin checking for signs of heart disease when patients are in their 30s.