The Silver Lining
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Reporting and analysis about the innovation, trends, and business of medicine and health care
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Like any disease, alcoholism has specific symptoms. Like many religions, drying-out programs require abstinence, blind faith, and confession.
It may be hard to believe that you can drink two fifths a day and not only function but function well. But I did it. For a while.
New parents, beware! The only thing I got out of my six Lamaze classes was permission to enter the delivery room with my wife.
Are eye surgeons miraculously changing the lives of folks with glasses as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, or are they just making themselves rich ?
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?
To a plastic surgeon, your face is just the beginning.
Now is the time to unlearn everything you’ve ever heard about snakebite.
Without embalming you can have a simple, inexpensive funeral. That’s just what Texas morticians don’t want.
In the southeast corner of Texas, more people get cancer than anywhere else in the state. Why?
In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.
Being autistic nearly ruined Michael Shipley’s life, but his parents sent him to a state mental hospital. Then Michael’s life was ruined for good.
As a doctor, Tony Seidenberg has become accustomed to death. Only this time it is different: he is the one who is dying.
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
My friend, you have come to the right place.
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
You can always spot a smoker. He fiddles with matches, his shirt pocket bulges in a tiny rectangle, and fumes emerge from his mouth and nose. But what should we do about him?
A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?
Doctors are busy every minute. But what exactly are they up to ?
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.
We will all grow old; but, as Maurice Chevalier says, “That’s not so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Some kids may fail at school and it’s not their fault.
You don’t have to move to Arizona to cure your allergies, but you may have to get rid of your cat.
A child with Down’s syndrome is neither Mongolian nor an idiot.
Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
A schizophrenic’s own story of his tour through asylums from Bellevue to Texas.
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Is doing what comes naturally good enough these days?
How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.
If you have to be critically injured in Texas, be sure to pick the right place.
Great ambulance drivers are made, not born.
Alpha waves, past lives, and other explorations of the subconscious.
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.
Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.
What you eat affects the way you think; and what you think affects the way you eat.
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
As long as you're cleaning up the environment, start with your own body.
Shaping up and shelling out at Texas Health Spas.
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.
How to choose your veterinarian-and your pet's.