
Urban refugees fleeing high-tech Dallas have created ersatz rural communities in the nearby countryside. This isolated, pastoral life sometimes erupts into adultery and murder.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson and John Bloom
Urban refugees fleeing high-tech Dallas have created ersatz rural communities in the nearby countryside. This isolated, pastoral life sometimes erupts into adultery and murder.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson and John Bloom
Candy Montgomery thought her affair with Allan Gore was over, until she found herself fighting for her life against Allan’s wife.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson
When a world-class athlete like Austin’s Lance Armstrong gets cancer, it’s a shock—for him, and for every man who has ever considered himself invincible.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Patricia Sharpe, Jim Atkinson, Evan Smith, Katy Vine, Jeff McCord, Mike Shea, Paul Burka, Jason Cohen and Cecilia Ballí
San Antonio's Marshevet Hooker is not just any old high school sprinter; she's an Olympic gold medalist in the making. Meet her and nine other women we're betting will lead the new Texas—and the world.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson
The truth—what we can discern, anyway—about Tom Landry’s leukemia.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson
More than a decade ago I wrote about the virtues of the drinking life and the comforts of what I called a “bar bar.” Then I hit rock bottom. It’s been eight years now since I took my last drink—and I’m finally ready to tell the rest of the story.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson
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.
Aug 31, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson
What to do if your doctor is a quack.
Mar 1, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson
It turns out that the toxin that’s changed a million faces has a social conscience after all. The wonders of Botox, a concentrated form of botulinum toxin, have been touted ad nauseam: By paralyzing facial muscles, it was smoothing out Hollywood’s wrinkles long before the FDA approved it, in 2002.
Jan 1, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson
Minister of Health Jim Atkinson cures what ails us.
Sep 30, 2004 — By Jim Atkinson
As more and more children fall off the health-insurance rolls, chaos reigns at Children's Medical Center Dallas, which used to have the best pediatric ER in Texas, and the quality of care for everyone suffers.
Mar 1, 2004 — By Jim Atkinson
How do you know when a child molester is cured? Are you willing to take his word for it? David Wayne Jones hopes so. Thirteen years ago he was convicted of preying on little boys at the East Dallas YMCA, but he could soon be out of jail and back on the street. Your street.
Dec 1, 2003 — By Jim Atkinson
Many Texans are woefully unprepared for what has become our fastest-growing health care problem: taking care of Mom and Dad.
Jul 31, 2003 — By Jim Atkinson
Historically, Southeast Texas and cancer have gone together like, well, pollution and disease. I wish I could say things were different today.
Apr 1, 2003 — By Jim Atkinson
Are the toxic fungi that launched a thousand lawsuits really as dangerous as everyone says? Don't believe the hype.
Dec 1, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
A Houston couple says a hospital is responsible for their daughter's severe disabilities. Should Texas' highest court agree, the case will change health care as we know it.
Aug 31, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is put under the microscope.
Jul 31, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
What is the safest way to dispose of a diseased cow carcassand what does it have to do with the Ames strain of anthrax?
Apr 1, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
Texans love to say that everything’s bigger here, but when it comes to the waistlines in one in four of our largest cities, that’s nothing to brag about.
Feb 1, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
If you think your flulike symptoms could be anthrax, don't call your HMOcall your doctor. And other advice the television "experts" should have told you.
Jan 1, 2002 — By Jim Atkinson
Why does Potter County have the state's highest mortality rate? Poverty is only one answer.
Nov 1, 2001 — By Jim Atkinson
When I lost my father to cancer this summer, the greatest comfort I found was in understanding how to grieve. That came in handy on September 11.
Jun 30, 2001 — By Jim Atkinson
A Dallas epidemiologist has made it his mission to learn the truth about Gulf War Syndrome, even if he has to fight the government.
May 31, 2001 — By Jim Atkinson
I learned a shocking lesson when I visited San Antonio's "hot lab," where some of the world's deadliest microbes are studied. The germs are winning.
Apr 1, 2001 — By Jim Atkinson
The prescription to treat the sickest areas in Texas isn't what you think.
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