After having severe pain in my left hip, my orthopedic doctor suspected a torn labrum and ordered an MRI with contrast for the hip joint. Going into the MRI I (Lisa) wasn’t sure what scared me more, the injection of the contrast into my hip joint or the actual MRI...
On yesterday's anniversary of Terri Shiavo's death, I read about a new study that offers promise for patients who diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that when testing brain-injured patients with a...
The threat of the current Health care bill passing still looms large over all of us. In its current form, it provides for a federal funding of abortion, raises health care costs for all of us, and drastically increases taxes on all working families.We must press...
Saturday morning I attended my first Town Hall meeting with Texas District 22 Representative Pete Olson. I’ve never been overly impressed by Rep. Olson for a number of reasons, partly because I believe he pays more attention to the Fort Bend GOP area of his district...
Houston is extremely fortunate to be the home of the Texas Medical Center. Created out of competition to be the best and chartered by the State of Texas in 1945, the TMC now consists of 47 member institutions in an area approximately the size of the city of Chicago....
