We’re No. 53
A new study confirms what researchers have long known: better-educated Americans are also the healthiest. So Houston’s suburban counties generally fared well in a ranking of health outcomes and health...
View ArticleMore than doctors and drugs
A new report ranking the well-being of women in America's top 25 metropolitan areas delivered bad news for Houston. But life expectancy here offers some lessons, if we can figure out what they are.
View Article$31 million in unintended consequences
The goal was simple. Make tobacco more expensive, and fewer people will use it.
View ArticleOpen wide, for a shiny new building
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is celebrating a $155 million milestone Friday, the official opening of its new high-tech School of Dentistry. The six-story, 300,000...
View ArticleA $7 million opportunity
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the Affordable Care Act any day now, and regardless of what it decides, health care organizations are trying to get ready. That includes Community Health...
View ArticleA not-so-surprising prediction
The Supreme Court ruling on health care reform is expected any day now, and one of the key players, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, made his prediction Wednesday. “I’m very optimistic the Supreme Court will...
View ArticleCalling all couch potatoes
School has only been out for a few weeks, but that’s long enough for bad habits to take root. TV. Video games. Rooting around in the pantry for chips and soda. Houston’s sultry summers make it tempting...
View ArticleProviding health care, one carrot at a time
The Harris County Hospital District is best known for its trauma center at Ben Taub General Hospital and the seemingly insatiable demand for care in its primary care and specialty clinics. But it took...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court ruled. Now what?
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act answered a couple of questions about the future of health care, but it left plenty of others. Don Lyons, CEO and managing partner of the...
View ArticleBad habits go global
If you think being a couch potato is a strictly American phenonemon, think again. Harold W. Kohl III, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, has a paper out...
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