Health
September 7, 2023
Healthy Eating May Turn Your Gut Bacteria Into Cancer-Fighting Heroes
Recent research out of Dallas and Houston highlights the “science-fictionlike” power of your body’s microbiome—and a high-fiber diet.
MD Anderson
Health
January 29, 2020
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on His Plans for Transforming the Agency
In his first interview since taking the reins, MD Anderson’s former chief medical executive discusses the need to modernize.
Health
October 19, 2016
The Iconoclast
Jim Allison has always gone his own way—as a small-town-Texas kid who preferred books to football, and as a young scientist who believed the immune system could treat tumors when few others did. And that irreverence led him to find a potential cure for cancer.
Health
January 1, 1997
Cancer Patience
To perfect a promising new gene therapy, doctors at Houston’s M. D. Anderson need time. Unfortunately, that’s one thing people with malignant brain tumors don’t have.
Health
September 30, 1988
Medicine and Miracles
After learning that he had cancer, the author began a search for a cure that took him far beyond medical expertise.
Health
April 1, 1979
Super Medicine
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.
Health
June 30, 1974
Six West
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.