A unique confluence of medicine, money, and politics is driving health care costs in the Rio Grande Valley. At the center of it all is a Democrat from Palmview, who is already under indictment for unreported income.
Why does our health insurance system treat a small part of the Rio Grande Valley differently from the rest of the state?
Today students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are expected to master more hard-core science than ever before. Yet after graduation, they’ll have to keep studying, and be counselors and business experts too. A hard look at the way we teach our doctors—and why it has had to change.
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
Drug treatment seldom works: at many centers, greedy entrepreneurs prey on frightened parents and troubled kids. But one teenager’s parents decided to take one last, desperate step: they sent their son to the toughest program in Texas.
Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.