Jim Atkinson

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 Jim Atkinson

The ride of his life.

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

The hybrid of my dreams.

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.

Sep 30, 2008 — By Jim Atkinson

A plug for new appliances.

Jul 31, 2008 — By Jim Atkinson

Talking trash (and compost).

May 31, 2008 — By Jim Atkinson

Lawn of a new day.

Mar 31, 2008 — By Jim Atkinson

Jim Atkinson changes out his insulation.

Feb 1, 2008 — By Jim Atkinson

Can Jim Atkinson change the world?

Dec 1, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

The esophagus explained.

Sep 30, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

Let’s have a heart-to-heart.

Jul 31, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

Sweat 101.

May 31, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

Fire ants forever. (sigh.)

Mar 31, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

The ABCs of HPV.

Feb 1, 2007 — By Jim Atkinson

Ten foods to gorge on in 2007.

Dec 1, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

The unsweetened truth about diabetes.

Sep 30, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

The newest nightmare disease.

Jul 31, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

The buzz on mosquitoes.

May 31, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

Why ozone is indeed a menace.

Apr 1, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

Blood will tell.

Feb 1, 2006 — By Jim Atkinson

Oh, say, can you see?

Nov 1, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson

Fat versus Fit.

Aug 31, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson

What to do if your doctor is a quack.

Jun 30, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson

Here comes the sun.

Apr 30, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson

Sneeze play.

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.

Mar 1, 2005 — By Jim Atkinson

Pain, pain, go away

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.

Aug 31, 2003 — By Jim Atkinson

Why Collin County is the new Dallas.

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 carcass—and 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 HMO—call 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.

Aug 31, 2000 — By Jim Atkinson

He's all hearts.