Houston Health News

The United States along with many countries around the world do extensive cancer research and spend billions if not trillions of dollars a year on trying to finding a cure for cancer. What are the odds of someone who's not...

Smoking cessation experts at a U.S. cancer hospital advise smokers combine nicotine replacements with counseling to help them kick their addictive habit...You really can't go wrong with any nicotine replacement therapy," Damon J. Vidrine of the department of behavioral science...

Heart screenings offered to sixth-graders at a Houston middle school revealed seven with undiagnosed heart conditions — two of which required surgery — and the results shocked researchers who want to see such tests offered at every campus. Those 94...

A handful of area school districts, including Houston ISD, have either begun offering swine flu vaccines to students or plan to do so in the near future. H1N1 vaccine supplies have broadened enough for the area's two largest health departments...

U.S. sociologists find religion plays a greater role in medical decisions involving seriously ill children, especially when difficult decisions must be made. Researchers Elaine Howard Ecklund of Rice University in Houston, Wendy Cadge of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and...

Year-Old Heart Patient Makes Medical History Thursday, November 12, 2009  Texas Children's Hospital Texas Children�s Hospital cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. David L.S. Morales, shares a laugh with his patient, 16-year old Frank De Santiago. Texas Children�s Hospital cardiovascular surgeon,...

The cause of priapism, spontaneous long-lasting erections lasting at least four hours, is unknown but U.S. researchers say there may be a treatment. Biochemists in the laboratory of Dr. Yang Xia, an associate professor at The University of Texas Medical...