Fighting a Syphilis Surge in Houston
Cases of the once rare disease are on the rise, crippling and killing infants. A new program hopes to prevent and treat the condition among those who are most vulnerable.
Cases of the once rare disease are on the rise, crippling and killing infants. A new program hopes to prevent and treat the condition among those who are most vulnerable.
A state district court judge narrowed Texas’s abortion ban, but the state’s appeal complicates access to the procedure.
Keith Meister, a team physician for the Texas Rangers, has reconstructed the elbows of many of the best players in baseball.
A UT Southwestern program highlights how physicians can and should be better trained to discuss healthy eating with their patients.
There aren’t nearly enough physicians in the state, especially for the more than 7.5 million Texans who primarily speak Spanish.
Family care physicians say they still don’t have enough personal protective equipment. So they’re seeking other solutions.
In his new memoir, the former chief of emergency medicine at Brackenridge Hospital recounts stories that are by turns tragic, triumphant, and NSFW.
Bypass surgery with almost no pain, and you get to go home three days later? Don’t have a coronary: It’s happening right now, in Texas.
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
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.
You might say Tarek Souryal is the most important Dallas Maverick: He doesn’t score or rebound, but he reconstructs million-dollar ankles and knees, and that makes him a real team player.
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.
How an old-fashioned Texas physician fought the takeover of modern medicine by heartless insurance companies—and lost.
A tale of rivalry, intrigue, and foul play in the science lab.
From the look on my doctor’s face, I knew the results of the biopsy. The lump in my breast was cancer.
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Doctors are busy every minute. But what exactly are they up to ?
At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Great ambulance drivers are made, not born.
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
Shaping up and shelling out at Texas Health Spas.
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.