Experts say only a few university health systems have launched such comprehensive plans around AI, with the potential to impact millions of patients, students and faculty.

The FDA took issue with the volume of GLP-1 drugs that Empower produces, suggesting in the warning letter that the changes do not serve legitimate medical needs.

Pisters spent much of his career at the hospital as a surgery professor and researcher, focusing on malignancies such as sarcomas and gastrointestinal cancers.

Even after numerous FDA warnings, the agency hasn’t stopped Empower Pharmacy from producing drugs at a scale rarely — if ever — seen in the compounding pharmacy industry.

According to internal financial records, the pharmacy dispensed nearly 3 million individual prescriptions to patients nationwide during the first 10 months of 2024, drawing $311 million in...

Traditionally, compounding pharmacies exist to serve a small subset of patients who have specialized medical needs. But millions have taken compounded GLP-1s.

Multiple experts who reviewed the donation say the payment could qualify as a conflict because it has the potential to influence prescribing decisions.

Houston engineer Shaun Noorian turned his company, Empower Pharmacy, into one of the biggest compounding pharmacies in the country. It all started with testosterone therapy.

Houston transplant surgeon Dr. J. Stevenson Bynon says he altered donor criteria to help patients too sick for surgery.

While "golden parachutes" are fairly common for presidents, the University of St. Thomas gave payments to several vice presidents, a business dean and at least one professor.

The decision capped a rapid downfall for the three-term Texas congressman and former Navy cryptologist.

Texas Medical Center has flooded in the past, critics warn, and would only be made more vulnerable by putting additional facilities in a floodplain.

Empower Pharmacy could be banned from doing business in California after the state's pharmacy board moved to revoke Empower’s probation in November, records show.

Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. is accused of making false statements that rendered patients functionally ineligible for organ transplants. His patients had no idea, federal authorities allege.

The repeat problems at Houston-based Empower Pharmacy include inadequate quality testing and a failure to clean equipment.

Lawmakers passed a number of bills to "Make Texas Healthy Again." They also made it easier for Texans to avoid vaccines.

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Dr. Eithan Haim has said publicly that he leaked the documents to a conservative activist in 2023 to “expose” care that he believed the hospital was providing "in secret."

Klotman took the helm at Baylor in 2010 after holding leadership roles at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and Duke University.

It’s a story with subplots involving a vaccine scam and a murder-for-hire scheme. It asks what we as a society require for legitimacy. And it’s a quintessentially American saga.

Dr. Melina Kibbe was named in a letter of no confidence signed by more than 100 doctors and staffers at UVA Health.

The parent raised concerns after a youth group made a spontaneous visit to a homeless encampment.

A late bid to disrupt its sale to Hearst is foiled by a fourth-generation newspaper owner turning down more money.

Empower Pharmacy, a Houston-based compounding pharmacy, has been sanctioned by the FDA and other states in the past decade. In Texas, it has a near-sterling record.

Less than 5% of homes in the county's FEMA floodplain had flood coverage, well below the national average. Uptake was even worse in other areas that flooded.

Renowned clinician and cancer researcher Dr. Hagop Kantarjian is stepping down as head of MD Anderson's leukemia department after more than 30 years.

The news comes as Ken Paxton is running for U.S. Senate in next spring’s GOP primary against incumbent John Cornyn.

Bobby and Amanda Martin had been married 13 years. Their eyes lit up when they saw each other, family members said.

Greta Toranzo, a student at Houston ISD's Sinclair Elementary School, is one of about 20 girls who went missing after destructive flooding hit Camp Mystic.

A hearing has been scheduled over whether former district attorney Kim Ogg will be held in contempt over her communications about the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

Vows of a $480M refund for CenterPoint customers have yet to be fulfilled a year after Hurricane Beryl left nearly a million Texans without power for four days.

The woman’s case is a worst-case scenario, according to advocates worried about the worsening state of domestic violence in the Houston region.

Executive director says board has "failed our licensees, the public, our staff, and the legislature," as Texas Funeral Service Commission meets to consider firing him.

Millions of Americans use GLP-1s, and many have relied on versions produced by compounding pharmacies because of the high monthly costs for brand names like Mounjaro and Zepbound.

Trump's DEI, green energy and cost-saving cuts have left $4 million unfunded in research projects and programs at University of Houston.

The recall follows a Houston Chronicle report highlight a decade of regulatory lapses at the pharmacy.

Weeks of tense exchanges between Baylor College of Medicine and the homeless health nonprofit culminated in an agreement to steadily wind down the partnership.

A federal judge says a New Hampshire town’s attempt to force a bakery to remove or alter its painting featuring pastries is unconstitutional.

Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations and FOIA requests allowed two convicted hackers to delete databases, according to internal d...

Global pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. is seeking tax incentives for a potential 236-acre biomanufacturing plant in Generation Park.

Tilman Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Italy and San Marino, has resigned from the University of Houston System Board of Regents, where he was chairman.

Houston-based Empower Pharmacy has repeatedly been admonished by the FDA for failing to follow federal rules that ensure drug safety and quality.

Baylor College of Medicine's layoffs speak to the vulnerability of academic medical centers nationwide amid dramatic cuts in federal health care spending.

MD Anderson took a $43 million operating loss through March, $18.3 million below 2025 projections.