Posted: 10:27 AM Authorities say a West Texas woman died while hiking in the New Mexico desert, apparently because of the extreme heat that has been affecting the area over the past weeks.

Updated: 9:57 AM Robertson County is about to take a major step forward when it comes to health care.

Updated: 11:05 PM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Posted: 3:13 PM Texas lawmakers have approved a massive health care bill that includes new restrictions on abortions. The measure now goes to the governor.

Updated: 11:28 PM Someone arrested by a Brazos County Constable in the KBTX lobby on Thursday may look familiar.

Posted: 10:37 AM The North Texas man who received the nation's first full-face transplant three months ago says recovery from the surgery has been harder than he expected.

Posted: 2:56 PM Lenient fathers are more likely than mothers to influence childhood obesity because they allow their kids to eat at fast-food restaurants frequently, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Updated: 10:43 AM In 1992, Kristi Yamaguchi earned an Olympic gold medal in figure skating for herself and the United States. That year, she became a national icon, but even two decades on, she still finds herself in the spotlight...and working to stay healthy.

Updated: 11:29 AM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Posted: 2:58 PM A conservative lawmaker has succeeded in tacking an anti-abortion rule onto a fiscal matters bill.

Updated: 10:50 PM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Updated: 2:54 PM A proposed statewide smoking ban inside Texas bars and restaurants has been revived in the special legislative session.

Updated: 12:35 PM The Agriculture Department says its new healthy eating symbol - called "My Plate" - will show Americans that nutrition doesn't have to be complicated.

Updated: 9:33 AM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Updated: 11:43 AM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Posted: 6:02 PM A deal reached on how to pay for Texas' health and human services programs puts off paying the bill to 2013.

Posted: 9:49 AM Texas medical schools feel like the scorned children of the state’s education budget.

Updated: 6:38 AM St. Joseph Regional Health Center has received the American Stroke Association’s (ASA) Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

Updated: 11:33 AM A new state of the art piece of technology is not only enhancing modern medicine in College Station. It is also changing the recovery process for heart surgery patients. And the College Station Medical Center is the first hospital in the Brazos Valley to unveil what is being called: "The world's smallest heart pump."

Posted: 3:34 PM Can sipping coffee give prostate cancer the slip?

Updated: 10:56 PM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Posted: 11:23 AM Smile, Texas schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera.

Posted: 10:27 AM Find out which restaurants made the grade, in this week's Restaurant Report Card.

Updated: 11:12 AM Healthy habits for women are sometimes hard to keep up with, but keeping them in mind could save you from trouble down the line.

Updated: 3:08 PM The so-called “bad cholesterol” – low-density lipoprotein -commonly called LDL – may not be so bad after all.