Houston Matters
Research Links Fatty Livers to Cancer
Posted on · Alcohol isn't the only way you can damage your liver -- a bad diet can too.
Tag: health science
News
Houston Fire Department Using Doctor Video Chats For Minor 911 Calls
Posted on · The Houston Fire Department is using live video chat for some patients who call 911 for minor health problems. Patients can speak live with an emergency medicine doctor through a computer tablet, potentially avoiding a long and costly ER visit.
News
Texas Inspector General Visits Houston Planned Parenthood Clinic
Posted on · Officials with Planned Parenthood say investigators visited five clinics around the state. It comes as Texas moves to block the organization from getting Medicaid funds.
Affordable Care Act
Houston’s Public Hospital Will Encourage More Patients To Enroll In Obamacare
Posted on · Harris Health will restrict financial aid to about 15,000 patients in an effort to push them to enroll in health care plans through the Affordable Care Act.
News
Houston Doctor Gaining Recognition For Short Fiction And Essays About Life In The Hospital
Posted on · Houston physician Dr. Ricardo Nuila draws on his medical career at Ben Taub hospital to animate his short stories and published essays.
News
Hidden Video Shows Houston Planned Parenthood Clinic
Posted on · An anti-abortion group released an undercover video Tuesday showing a Planned Parenthood executive at a Houston clinic discussing how the group recoups costs for providing organs from aborted fetuses for medical research.
News
Undercover Videos Of Abortion Providers: What Are The Legal Issues?
Posted on · Two lawsuits were filed last week in California to stop an anti-abortion group from releasing more undercover videos about abortion providers and fetal tissue research. The Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast affiliate in Houston also says it was infiltrated by the same group — which raises legal issues unique to the state of Texas.
News
Baylor’s Cancer Center Gets Top Designation From National Cancer Institute
Posted on · The Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center is now a "Comprehensive Cancer Center," joining 45 others nationwide
News
Texas Senators Hold Hearing On Fetal Tissue Practices At Planned Parenthood
Posted on · Officials from Planned Parenthood decline to appear, calling the hearing "political".
News
Anti-Abortion Rally in Houston Draws Hundreds to Planned Parenthood
Posted on · The release of recent undercover videos about research involving fetal tissue has galvanized the movement.
News
Planned Parenthood in Houston Targeted By Undercover Anti-Abortion Group
Posted on · Two people from the Center for Medical Progress posed as biomedical researchers during April visit to Texas
News
Texas Health And Human Services Commission Hears Medicaid Waiver Comments
Posted on · Texas lawmakers have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, so they ask for a waiver.
News
Texas Still Among Ten Worst States To Be a Child
Posted on · "Kids Count" Report from Annie E. Casey Foundation Belies Rhetoric About Texas Prosperity
News
App For Natural Disasters Could Help Houstonians In Future Floods
Posted on · Lone Star Legal Aid is collaborating with tech-savvy Georgetown law students to build a free web-based application that guides people through the process of applying for recovery assistance.
News
How The Pap Smear Could Someday Become A Thing Of The Past
Posted on · Not long ago, if you wanted to know your cholesterol or testosterone levels, or whether you might be HIV positive, you had to go to a clinic or doctor's office to get tested. Today, you can do those tests at home. And, one day, there could be another test on the "at-home" list: screening for the human papilloma virus, or HPV. That's the virus that causes most cervical cancers. Testing for HPV without a trip to a doctor's office could improve the health of women in Harris County.