Food Fright
Eating a peanut shouldn’t be a particularly memorable experience, but for Dallasite Mona Cain and countless other allergic Americans, it’s a matter of life and death.
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Eating a peanut shouldn’t be a particularly memorable experience, but for Dallasite Mona Cain and countless other allergic Americans, it’s a matter of life and death.
Itchy eyes, sore throat, runny nose: It must be allergy season. But what causes allergies? How do you pick a doctor? And what’s the best treatment? An in-depth look at an affliction that’s nothing to sneeze at.
At the Texas Woman’s University Aphasia Center in Dallas, a promising new treatment is helping stroke victims learn to read, write, and speak again.
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.
Today students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are expected to master more hard-core science than ever before. Yet after graduation, they’ll have to keep studying, and be counselors and business experts too. A hard look at the way we teach our doctors—and why it has had to change.
In the sixteenth century, potters emigrated from Talavera de la Reina in Spain to the new colonial settlement of Puebla in Mexico and began crafting their majolica- inspired earthenware, known as Talavera. Although some factories in Puebla still produce high-quality pottery in the old style, most of the vibrantly decorated
Family planner.
Vertigo isn’t just the stuff of Hitchcock thrillers—it’s a debilitating disease, as Dallas radio talk show host Kevin McCarthy found out the hard way.
“Michael Jackson’s disease” sounds like a punch line, but the pigment-robbing skin disorder is no joke. Just ask Dallas County commissioner John Wiley Price.
You might say Tarek Souryal is the most important Dallas Maverick: He doesn’t score or rebound, but he reconstructs million-dollar ankles and knees, and that makes him a real team player.
For reformers of the nations health-care system, ground zero may be Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the crush of uninsured patients with non-urgent complaints is affecting everyone’s care.
After a decade of lab work at Baylor College of Medicine, this husband-and-wife team has solved the mystery of hyperinsulinism.
Across the state, kids are getting seriously messed up on a dirt-cheap downer from Mexico.
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.
Can a suburban Dallas house-wife who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder ever overcome her fears? She doubts it.
By vetoing the Patient Protection Act, Gearge W. Bush put cost before care.
Twenty-five years after Norma McCorvey joined the flight to legalize abortion, the battle is still raging—and so is she.
After years of arguing that vigorous activity is a key to good health, Kenneth Cooper is exercising his right to change his mind.
How a small Houston biotech company and a giant California-based rival are battling over who developed what may be a revolutionary cure for asthma and allergies.
How an old-fashioned Texas physician fought the takeover of modern medicine by heartless insurance companies—and lost.
Without constant care, victims of an obscure genetic disorder would eat themselves to death.
Tracking down deadly genes.
Married for 32 years, my parents both died of AIDS, and we, their children, may never know why.
After years of decay and death, a Houston neighborhood ravaged by the disease is learning to live with it—and surviving.
She was the princess who wore Tiffany perfume. He was the middle-class guy who raced cars. But when they met on the cystic fibrosis wing of a Dallas hospital, romance bloomed.
A year after a grand mal seizure left me convulsing on the floor, I’m still finding my way back into everyday life.
Five years ago, rabies was rare in South Texas. Now nearly three hundred animals have died and the epidemic is not abating.
Twenty years ago, we were two-steppers. Now we’re twelve-steppers, thanks to a set of self-help gurus.
My son ended his life after three years of madness and unbearable depression. Who am I to say he did the wrong thing?
Cardiologists Per and Peter Langsjoen sounded a warning.
The politics of trauma.
When a few minutes matter, an EMS helicopter can make the difference between life and death.
My father loved his job at a Gulf Coast oil refinery. In fact, he loved it to death.
After struggling to give up smoking, I have come to a compromise: Never smoke more than one cigarette—at a time.
Stormie Jones’s historic transplant gave her four and a half good years. But at what cost?
Nice-guy bodybuilder Larry North has muscled his way into Dallas’ power circles.
His unconventional regimen—and his media savvy—have made him the latest of the Texas celebrity heart doctors.
Drug treatment seldom works: at many centers, greedy entrepreneurs prey on frightened parents and troubled kids. But one teenager’s parents decided to take one last, desperate step: they sent their son to the toughest program in Texas.
Codependency leaders preach that we are the victims of a psychological plague. It remains to be seen whether they are selling us a valuable insight or merely a bill of goods.
It was the hardest decision I ever had to make. Had the time come to put my father in a nursing home?
After learning that he had cancer, the author began a search for a cure that took him far beyond medical expertise.
For Ted Segal of Waco, the problem wasn’t getting a heart transplant; it was finding a donor. The delay was killing him.
From the look on my doctor’s face, I knew the results of the biopsy. The lump in my breast was cancer.
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining
In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.
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.
Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.
I smoked marijuana all day every day for several years. It took me almost a year to quit—and now I wonder if I’ll ever get straight.
When cedars start to mate, Texans start to suffer.