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| Vol: 2 Issue: 6: |
 | by Edgar Walters A new group has joined the chorus lambasting Texas for resisting court-ordered reforms to its foster care system: its own employees who work with children. |
 | by Edgar Walters Health plans say they could save Texas roughly $100 million per year in Medicaid costs if lawmakers would give them more freedom to choose generic drugs over name brands. |
 | by Edgar Walters Texas health officials have asked a prominent academic journal to take the state's name off a published finding that Texas women lost access to health care services after lawmakers kicked Planned Parenthood out of a family planning program. |
 | by Jacob Sanchez In this week's Q&A, we interview Ashley Shortz, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University who was the lead author of a recent study about mental health and aging. |
 | by John Reynolds In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Reading and Writing Cancer. |
 | Despite a booming economy, Texas ranks well below average in the quality of care provided to residents, including those with health insurance. |
 | By relying on electrodes implanted in the brains of people with epilepsy, which often causes memory loss, researchers hope to better understand which specific factors determine whether something is remembered or not. |
 | Although more than 1 million Texans got health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a new survey found that 1 in 5 Texans says that it’s gotten harder to see a doctor in the past two years. |
 | Genetic research can shed light on individual risk factors for cancer, but one doctor says she was among those who ignored her own family history of cancer because of fear. |
 | A new Medicare program designed to remove financial incentives to physicians and hospitals that prescribe high-priced drugs is drawing mixed reactions from providers. |
 | By altering a patient’s immune system, many people who couldn’t previously find a compatible kidney donor can now be matched with an incompatible donor, according to a new study. |
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