Major Medical Shakeup

Major medical shakeup: St. Luke's sold to a surprise out-of-town buyer in a $2 billion deal

By Shelby Hodge

04.19.13 | 2:01 pm

After nearly a year of study, negotiations and speculation, the St. Luke's Episcopal Health System board has approved an agreement that will transfer the system to Denver-based Catholic Health ...

Pix of the Day

Miracle baby leaves Texas Children's with a special shield to protect heart outside of her body

By Whitney Radley

01.24.13 | 3:14 pm

Audrina Cardenas was born on Oct. 15, 2012, with ectopia cordis, a rare congenital malformation where the heart is abnormally located partially or totally outside of the chest. But thanks to a ...

Hipster Christian Housewife

God and cancer: Having faith when your husband is diagnosed and your world tilts with worry

By Cameron Dezen Hammon

10.22.12 | 1:34 pm

"I'm tired all the time,” my husband told the therapist. “I don’t know why.” He was reading from a dutifully prepared list of concerns, one he had spent hou ...

Open to the public

Medicine's OTC? New conference brings major health care power players together in H-Town

By Whitney Radley

10.18.12 | 12:58 pm

The Texas Lyceum convenes for its 2012 Public Conference this weekend, one that has been ambitiously billed as "Healthcare Innovation: The Next Spindletop for Texas?" Pullin ...

One small step for man

MD Anderson launches Moon Shots Program to wipe out eight major types of cancer

By Whitney Radley

09.21.12 | 11:58 am

On Friday, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center announced the launch of the Moon Shots Program, an action plan that disrupts the paradigm and brings together teams of researchers and ...

A sneak peek

A sci-fi hospital: New Smith Clinic takes medicine into the future with doctor design input

By Whitney Radley

09.13.12 | 1:29 pm

When it opens its doors on Oct. 1, the Smith Clinic will bring the tally up to 44 Harris Health System (formerly the Harris County Hospital District) facilities in the Houston area. T ...

Your Health

A medicine cabinet miracle? New study says an aspirin a day may keep cancer away

By Jeffrey Kreisberg

08.26.12 | 5:45 pm

A daily dose of aspirin may have more benefits than reducing heart disease risk — it may also help prevent cancer. A study involving more than 100,000 predominantly white elderly participants ...

Harris County Hospital District Foundation's "Mallets & Medicine"

Houston Polo Club

10.28.12

All proceeds from the event will support the Hospital Distric's Center of Excellence in Cancer Care. The HCHD Cancer Care program has received Accreditation with Commendation by The American Co

Controversy online

Was Houston truly snubbed in hospital rankings? The benefits of fragmented health care

By Whitney Radley

07.21.12 | 1:00 pm

The U.S. News & World Report released its 23rd annual Best Hospitals rankings earlier this week, and though many Houston hospitals ranked highly in respective specialties, the 20 ...

Big bucks

Doctor Moneybags: MD Anderson and UTHealth officials are highest paid public employees in Houston

By Whitney Radley

07.07.12 | 9:30 am

If anyone ever doubted the profitability of the public sector, a list of the highest paid public employees in the Houston area published by the Houston Business Journal soundly refutes all sus ...