As school resumes in Texas later this month, educators should be prepared to stave off outbreaks of the swine flue, especially until the vaccine is ready, possibly in mid-October, top U.S. officials said Friday.

The sale would let the hospital district add 600 beds. But officials say taxes wouldn’t rise in the deal, which could cost as much as $185 million.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, hosted the meeting attended by about 90 physicians at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Woodlands.

The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.

A common treatment that uses medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of elderly people worked no better than a sham treatment, the first rigorous studies of the popular procedure reveal.

After closing campuses earlier in the year, officials have decided to focus mainly on persuading parents to keep sick kids at home.

State Rep. Garnet Coleman is calling out the Harris County Hospital District for hosting U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s news conference on healthcare reform Monday, 1½ years after it rejected as political his request to hold a similar event.

A surgery technician at the center of a hepatitis C scare in Colorado involving the alleged swapping of patients’ clean needles for her dirty ones is being investigated in Texas because she previously worked in a Houston-area hospital.

Children six months and older will get priority. So will pregnant women and health-care workers.

The emergency room at the Hurricane Ike-devastated University of Texas Medical Branch is scheduled to reopen Saturday.