Senator Eddie Lucio Jr., said that building two medical schools in the Valley is "totally unrealistic" and the focus should be kept on the plan to build a University of Texas system medical school in Harlingen.
A UT study on the traffic intersections of the future, the Perry gravy train is back on the track, and the Spurs lose a game on purpose.
More than thirty Tivoli students brought their own lunches to school last week as part of a grassroots protest for healthier meal options.
Two new studies from Texas researchers focus on shedding the pounds and keeping them off.
Prevention magazine blames fast food, steakhouses, and barbecue joints for the high obesity rates.
Is speed dating the surefire way to building a healthy doctor-patient relationship?
A roundup of the latest and greatest scientific research from Texas universities.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including our belt size. Find out how to slim down and still enjoy a brisket sandwich or two.
Why the proposed merger between Baylor College of Medicine and my alma mater could turn out to be a bad prescription.
Susan Hyde’s children were constantly in and out of the hospital with one illness or another. But were they the ones who were sick?
Why does our health insurance system treat a small part of the Rio Grande Valley differently from the rest of the state?
The role of the cerebellum and underlying brain abnormalities in autism.
I avoid saying the word “diet” like the plague. I try to be careful about what I eat and what I do because I know my six-year-old daughter is watching me. She’s listening.
Cockrell has lived in West Texas for twenty years and has been delivering babies for fourteen. She opened West Texas Birth Services, in Odessa, in 2001.My mother gave birth to my younger sister when I was sixteen. They induced her at forty weeks, and I was present for the
If you’re not part of my health care solution, you’re part of my problem.
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.
Is there a place in Texas for drug needle exchange programs?
If you need an example of how the world can change in an instant, here is a small blow by blow.
If UTMB’s trauma center really is slated to reopen, the hospital will have a few questions to answer.
I used to spend every weekend out by the pool, working on my tan. Now I check my body for changing moles or new spots, and call my doctor.
I’ve treated hundreds of elderly patients with Alzheimer’s. Now the disease is stealing my own father.
The mysteries of AIDS are starting to unravel in the laboratory of this professor of medicine, microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Working with, among others, Dr. Matthew Dolan, formerly of the Wilford Hall Medical Center, at Lackland Air Force Base, Ahuja has
The esophagus explained.
Let’s have a heart-to-heart.
Sweat 101.
Fire ants forever. (sigh.)
The ABCs of HPV.
Ten foods to gorge on in 2007.
The unsweetened truth about diabetes.
The newest nightmare disease.
The buzz on mosquitoes.
Why ozone is indeed a menace.
Blood will tell.
Oh, say, can you see?
Sweaty socks, cat urine, dead skunks: Three cheers for having no sense of smell.
Fat versus Fit.
Frozen embryos are destroyed every day in the name of in vitro fertilization. Tell me again what’s so wrong with stem cell research?
Executive editor S. C. Gwynne on examining one of the state’s most litigious, at times lethal, MDs.
What to do if your doctor is a quack.
Here comes the sun.
Cancer used to be something you died from. Now, thanks to clinical trials, it’s increasingly something you live with.
Sneeze play.
Pain, pain, go away
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.
The marriage of Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital should have been made in heaven—and until recently, it was. Their nasty breakup is a bell tolling for American medicine.
Senior editor Pamela Colloff on how cuts in the taxpayer-funded Children’s Health Insurance Program have resulted in a health care crisis.
For several months, TV shrink Dr. Phil McGraw has been picking apart— in full view of his national audience—the life choices made by residents of the Central Texas town of Elgin, who are apparently too fat, too horny, and too domestically violent for their own good. The diagnoses have not
Can one of the state’s best writers change modern medicine as we know it? Abraham Verghese hopes so—one story at a time.
A year after state legislators kicked tens of thousands of children off the taxpayer-funded health insurance rolls, our biggest public-policy problem has reached crisis proportions. And the bleeding shows no signs of letting up.
America's notoriously needy readers certainly doand for the robust health of this publishing genre, they have Dallas in general and Phil McGraw's agent in particular to thank.
