The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it issued a “safe to proceed” letter to Revolution Medicines, allowing the sponsor to initiate an expanded access treatment protocol (EAP) for its experimental pancreatic cancer drug, daraxonrasib.

Diabetes has become one of the most formidable health threats of the modern era, touching nearly every family, every community, and every healthcare system.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting this year’s first case of West Nile illness in a resident of Harris County. Health officials confirmed the resident was diagnosed with West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease. 

Few figures in modern medicine have left a mark as profound as Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley; their work in Texas helped redefine the limits of heart surgery and elevate Houston to global prominence in cardiovascular care.