Houston Personal Injury Law Blog

Cancer of the eye may be rare, but residents of Texas should still be aware of it. An estimated 3,400 U.S. adults will likely be diagnosed with eye cancer in 2020, specifically primary intraocular cancer. By "primary" is meant that the cancer starts in the eye....

Patients in Texas are always at risk of receiving the wrong type of diagnosis when they visit their physician. This is exactly what happened to numerous former NFL players who were told that they had the brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE....

Texas residents who undergo a lung scan or chest X-ray and are told of an abnormality may believe they have cancer, but this could be wrong. In fact, the American Thoracic Society says that half of adults who get a chest X-ray or CT scan are found to have a nodule, a...

The thyroid, a gland in the lower part of the neck, releases certain hormones that regulate metabolism. Too much or too little of these hormones can lead to hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, respectively. What Texas residents should be aware of is that the two...

People in Texas, particularly those with human immunodeficiency virus, may miss out on timely treatment if they develop bronchiectasis. A study of HIV patients who also had bronchiectasis revealed that they experienced significant delays in getting an accurate...

Texas residents may be surprised to learn that surgeons in the United States leave items inside the bodies of the patients they operate on thousands of times each year. These patients often suffer pain and digestive problems for months or even years before learning...

Many people in Texas are the victims of either a misdiagnosis or a missed diagnosis. A missed diagnosis simply means that a patient's condition is never identified while a misdiagnosis means that it's confused with something else. The one can lead to a worsening of...

One may not think that skin cancer affects the feet that much since they're rarely exposed to the sun. Sun exposure is not the only possible cause of skin cancer, though. Other causes include viruses and exposure to certain chemicals. Texas residents who suspect...

The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has published the results of a study that should be of interest to anyone in Houston who has darker color skin. It turns out that those whose skin phototype is on the Fitzpatrick scale of IV to VI (from light brown to...