Health
January 1, 1987
The Coronary Bypass
In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.
Health
Reporting and analysis about the innovation, trends, and business of medicine and health care
Health
December 1, 1986
Touch Me, Feel Me, Heal Me!
I was curious when I found that three of my friends had delved into the mysteries of psychic surgery. After three “bloody operations” of my own, I knew what it was all about. About $30 a minute.
Health
March 1, 1985
The Silver Lining
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Health
July 31, 1983
The Death Shift
The three-to-eleven evening shift, Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio: nurse Genene Jones was on duty in the pediatric intensive care unit, and for months babies kept having mysterious—sometimes fatal—emergencies. Why?
Health
November 1, 1981
So You Don’t Like The Way You Look?
To a plastic surgeon, your face is just the beginning.
Health
April 30, 1981
Extreme Unctuousness
Without embalming you can have a simple, inexpensive funeral. That’s just what Texas morticians don’t want.
Health
April 30, 1981
The Cancer Belt
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
Health
April 1, 1981
Passing On
In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.
Health
April 1, 1980
The Finish Line
As a doctor, Tony Seidenberg has become accustomed to death. Only this time it is different: he is the one who is dying.
Health
January 1, 1980
The Baby Factory
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Health
May 31, 1979
A Stitch in Time
A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?
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
November 1, 1978
Old Folks at Home
We will all grow old; but, as Maurice Chevalier says, “That’s not so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Health
April 1, 1978
The Agony and the Allergy
You don’t have to move to Arizona to cure your allergies, but you may have to get rid of your cat.
Health
April 1, 1977
The Lifesavers
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Health
December 1, 1976
In the Bin
A schizophrenic’s own story of his tour through asylums from Bellevue to Texas.
Health
February 1, 1975
A Matter of Life and Death
If you have to be critically injured in Texas, be sure to pick the right place.
Health
February 1, 1975
Om, Om on the Range
Alpha waves, past lives, and other explorations of the subconscious.
Health
April 30, 1974
Spinal Strategists
Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.
Health
March 31, 1974
Method Against Madness
What you eat affects the way you think; ad what you think affects the way you eat.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 1974
Abortion in Texas
“I was raped. I guess it was my own fault in a way, but I was passed out when it happened. It was my first time and I didn’t even know what was happening. I still feel bad about that. “I knew I was pregnant and I just couldn’t tell
Health
January 31, 1974
Environmentalist, Heal Thyself
As long as you're cleaning up the environment, start with your own body.
Health
January 1, 1974
Living Off the Fat of the Land
Shaping up and shelling out at Texas Health Spas.
Health
August 31, 1973
The Death of the Marlboro Man
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
Health
April 30, 1973
Marcus Welby is an Establishment Quack!
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.