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...

An estimated 1 to 3 million people across the U.S. have a condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. POTS is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, the part that controls the internal organs without the person's conscious effort, so it affects...