HOUSTON — The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported a significant increase in pertussis (whooping cough) ...

County Commissioner Rick Bailey knows immediately when one of his Johnson County constituents has suffered a health scare.

who has led the Texas Department of State Health Services since 2016, will retire at the end of the month. Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the chief state epidemiologist, has been named his interim replacement.

Various Cook Children’s locations are experiencing a spike in cases of salmonella, but the Texas Department of State Health ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — An Alice High School student has tested positive for tuberculosis, the Department of State Health ...

Fentanyl poisoning deaths have plummeted by nearly 20 percent, according to new data published by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). DSHS data shows that 1,925 Texans died from ...

This column is written b D-Sugar Land, a physician and Texas state representative for House District 76, serving the ...

On Nov. 1, hospitals will begin asking patients their citizenship status. But data suggests uninsured citizens, not ...

State officials are suing the federal ... As head of the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Fontes Rainer traveled all over the country to meet with ...