Health
March 1, 1985
The Silver Lining
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Health
Reporting and analysis about the innovation, trends, and business of medicine and health care
Health
February 1, 1985
Leaving the Bottle Behind
Like any disease, alcoholism has specific symptoms. Like many religions, drying-out programs require abstinence, blind faith, and confession.
Health
February 1, 1985
My Life as a Drunk
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.
Health
May 1, 1984
Why I Hate Lamaze
New parents, beware! The only thing I got out of my six Lamaze classes was permission to enter the delivery room with my wife.
Health
January 1, 1984
All the Better to See You With, My Dear
Are eye surgeons miraculously changing the lives of folks with glasses as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, or are they just making themselves rich ?
True Crime
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
June 30, 1981
Fangs
Now is the time to unlearn everything you’ve ever heard about snakebite.
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
Little Boy Lost
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.
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
February 1, 1980
The Crack-Up
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
Health
January 1, 1980
Life Got You Down? Getting Nowhere? Wishing for Wealth? For Success? For Happiness?
My friend, you have come to the right place.
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
December 1, 1979
Smokers Are People Too
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?
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
What They Do All Day
Doctors are busy every minute. But what exactly are they up to ?
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
October 1, 1978
I Can’t Do It!
Some kids may fail at school and it’s not their fault.
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
September 30, 1977
Jennie
A child with Down’s syndrome is neither Mongolian nor an idiot.
Health
May 31, 1977
The Power
Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.
Health
April 1, 1977
The Lifesavers
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Health
March 1, 1977
Oops!
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
Health
December 1, 1976
In the Bin
A schizophrenic’s own story of his tour through asylums from Bellevue to Texas.
Health
November 1, 1976
Vanity Fair
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
Health
June 1, 1976
Physician, Heal Thyself
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Health
March 1, 1976
The New Facts of Life
Is doing what comes naturally good enough these days?
Health
July 31, 1975
The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.
How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.
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
Sirens in the Night
Great ambulance drivers are made, not born.
Health
February 1, 1975
Om, Om on the Range
Alpha waves, past lives, and other explorations of the subconscious.
Health
June 30, 1974
Six West
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.
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; and what you think affects the way you eat.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 1974
Abortion in Texas
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
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
April 30, 1973
Marcus Welby is an Establishment Quack!
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.
Health
April 1, 1973
Only Your Pet Knows for Sure
How to choose your veterinarian-and your pet's.