Feature

Close Encounters

The Texas Medical Center’s latest, greatest advance is neither pill nor procedure.

08/04/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Alternative Medicine

Kung Fu Enlightening: The Rise of Qigong

A Chinese practice finds plenty of adherents in the West, including many in Houston’s medical community.

08/04/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Bayougraphy

Cracking Cases With a Genetics Gumshoe

Brendan Lee, Researcher

05/31/2015 Photography by Charles Ford By Jerry Ianelli

HIV/AIDS

For Gay Men, a Ban on Blood Donation Ends, But a Stigma Remains

There will be blood, but whose?

05/31/2015 By Kayla Stewart

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Art with Heart 2015

05/14/2015

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DePelchin Children’s Center Luncheon

05/07/2015

Top Dentists 2015

Our 2015 Top Dentists List

Presenting the finest dentists in all the land. Your mouth can thank us later.

05/03/2015

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UTHealth LIVE!

04/15/2015

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Friends of Nursing Luncheon and Fashion Show

04/01/2015

television

Ken Burns's New Cancer Documentary Features Five MD Anderson Docs

The three-part film, which begins airing tonight on Channel 8, tells the history of cancer from its first description in 1550 BCE to the latest treatments.

03/30/2015 By Michael Hardy

Health

Dining in the Med Center, Where Health and Disease Collide

If you thought the world’s biggest hospital district would have healthier dining options, think again.

03/09/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

Repeat Offender

Decades After Recovery, Polio Strikes Back

A disease and its victims, down but not out

03/09/2015 By Peter Holley

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The Eye Ball

02/11/2015

Weighty Matters

Just How Fat Are We?

Like it or not, Houston’s “Fattest City in America” moniker has stuck. But is it true?

02/08/2015 By Katharine Shilcutt

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UTHealth Constellation Gala

12/03/2014

Ice House Interview

Interview: Friends with (Potential) Benefits for Mankind

These Rice University researchers are going viral—but not in the way you think.

09/30/2014 By Catherine Matusow

Top Doctors 2014

Seizing the Moment

One Houston physician is a pioneer in eradicating a rare form of epilepsy.

09/01/2014 By Michael Hardy

Top Doctors 2014

Finding a Better Way to Target Children’s Cancer

In a world where the cure can be deadlier than the disease, a Houston medical power couple is finding new ways to deliver cancer medicine.

09/01/2014 By Katharine Shilcutt

Top Doctors 2014

Solving the Mysteries—and Blame Games—of Childbirth

To find out why non-human primates often have more successful births than humans do, one BCM professor is thinking small.

09/01/2014 By Kerry H.

Top Doctors 2014

Training the Next Generation of Minimally-Invasive Surgeons

Remote control technology lets doctors perform less invasive surgeries than ever—and to train doctors all over the world from their offices.

09/01/2014 By Catherine Matusow