Medical Treatments and Procedures

Last Shot: Time Is Running Out

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places ... More >>

Kaitlyn Samuels, the Disabled Girl Whose Therapy Was Denied by the Military's Insurer, Has Found Help in an Unlikely Place: Congress

We've written about Kaitlyn Samuels twice: Once last February when her parents went before a military judge to argue that Tricare, the Department of Defense's health insurer, should cover therapy costs for their severely disabled daughter, and again in October after Tricare ignored the judge's order ... More >>

Slayer Helped Get Me Through Chemotherapy

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places ... More >>

Last Shot: A Concert Photographer's Battle With Cancer

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographerAndrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places. ... More >>

Darryl Johnston is Now Hawking a Medically Questionable Testosterone Booster

It's possible that there exists, somewhere, a human being manlier than former Cowboy Darryl Johnston. Maybe some real-world version of the Old Spice guy. But Johnston, a legendary fullback with a square jaw, three Super Bowl rings and the uber-masculine nickname "Moose," is certainly a close second. ... More >>

Vaccine Mandate Has Contributed to the Sharp Enrollment Drop at Texas Community Colleges

With the recent recession came a corresponding boom at two-year colleges as students sought to gain marketable job skills without shelling out big bucks to attend costlier four-year institutions. That boom is now over, and the numbers in Texas are bearing that out. Between fall 2011 and fall 2012, ... More >>

A Navy Captain's Increasingly Absurd Fight Against Military Insurer to Pay For Disabled Daughter's Physical Therapy

When Kaitlyn Samuels was 4 months old, her parents, Mark and Jennifer, worried that she couldn't reach for her toys. Doctors initially assured them that it was probably normal, but after two months brought little improvement they ordered a battery of neurological tests that revealed Kaitlyn had a ve ... More >>

Woman Claims Botched Tummy Tuck Left Her Eating Through a Hole in Her Stomach

In 2009, Rolanda Dickerson went to Forest Park Medical Center for a tummy tuck. Instead, according to a lawsuit first reported by Courthouse News, Dr. John Alexander gave her a gastric bypass. That was a problem both because the procedure wasn't what she had agreed to and because Dickerson had rece ... More >>

'The Most Corrupt Apple Store in America' is in NorthPark

Gizmodo Wednesday had an anonymous tell-all from former employees of what it describes as "the most corrupt Apple store in America." Where might that store be, you ask? NorthPark. And how did the NorthPark Apple store earn such a notable distinction? Well, allegedly, according to some anonymous guy ... More >>

Man Sues Dallas Doc, McKinney Hospital After Losing Testicle, Length of Colon Due to Allegedly Botched Hernia Surgery

Pedro Hermenegildo didn't have insurance, so he paid Dr. Ricardo Rocha in cash to repair a hernia, a fairly routine, outpatient procedure. But according to a lawsuit filed against Rocha in a Dallas County district court last week, Hermenegildo lost much more than his hernial bulge. The surgery was ... More >>

Have Babies and Young Children, Dallas? You Might Want to Get Vaccinated Against Whooping Cough

Cases of pertussis, widely known as whooping cough, are on a "modest" uptick in Dallas County, county health officials say. So far this year, the number of cases is higher than in 2010 and 2011. And with the death of one infant this year, health officials say it's "very important for all adults who ... More >>

When It Comes to Vaginal Probin', Texas's GOP Men Got the Short Shrift

If I were a male cowboy-boot-wearing Republican in Texas, I might feel pretty chapped right now by all the attention paid over the last week to the Virginia ultrasound bill. Talk about some limp legislation. Yesterday those wimps in Virginia voted up a pared-down version that will allow women under ... More >>

Disabled Girl's Treatment Coverage Depends on Definition of "Hippotherapy"

Mark Samuels, a captain in the Navy, and Jennifer, his wife, never imagined their first time in court would be fighting for healthcare benefits for their daughter Kaitlyn. The 15-year-old was born with an uncommon brain condition similar to cerebral palsy. She cannot communicate verbally and functio ... More >>

Film Critical of Komen, Pink Ribbons, Inc., Opens in Canada Today. No U.S. Date Set Yet.

​Amidst all the ruckus, resignations and double-talking over Susan G. Komen for the Cure's politically charged move to pull its breast-cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, you should also be aware: Dallas-based Komen's actually the subject of a documentary that opens in Canada today t ... More >>

How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood

Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after "anti-women's health groups have repeate ... More >>

Center For Reproductive Rights Wants All Fifth Circuit Judges To Hear Sonogram Law Case

Rick Perry, signing the sonogram legislation​The saga of Texas's brand-new, Rick-Perry approved sonogram law continues. First, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Sam Sparks and allowed the law to go into effect. (That law, just to refresh, ... More >>

Judge OKs Texas's Sonogram Law, Making Governor Rick Perry Very, Very Happy

Texas's dandy new "sonogram law" -- which requires abortion-seeking women to look at a sonogram, hear a description of it from her doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat -- is legal, a federal court ruled today. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a temporary injunction, issued by Judge ... More >>

Beating Up Babes in Toyland

Perry and Tea Party make a blue Christmas for needy kids.

Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

Texas Is the "Big Fish," and the Anti-Abortion Movement Has Lots of Bait in the Water

Photo by Holly MorganNancy Northup, President, Center For Reproductive Rights​The First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that recently won a prelim ... More >>

Center for Reproductive Rights Has New Site For Lone Star Ladies and Other In Utero News

​Starting September 1, if you're a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor's office. You're going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you "in detail," and possibly be asked to listen to a fetal heart monitor (although you ... More >>

Hamilton and Cruz in Frisco Tonight? Might Be a Good Time To Take in a RoughRiders Game.

​John Blake just sent word: Josh Hamilton will return to the world of the baseball living tonight in Frisco, when he begins a rehab stint with the RoughRiders as Steve Buechele's second-place squad takes on the Midland Rockhounds. Hamilton, benched with a non-displaced hairline fracture of his rig ... More >>

West Dallas Lead Pollution Victims Still Seeking Justice All These Years Later

The old RSR Corporation Lead Smelter, which contaminated some 14 surrounding miles​Late last month, West Dallas activist Otis Fagan turned up at City Hall backed by 20 or so other members of a group he calls the Clean Association for Environmental Justice, asking the city council to intervene on t ... More >>

The Battle Between Parkland and Dallas News Rages On In Missive From Hospital CEO

Ron Anderson​Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred c ... More >>

The DARPA Initiative: SMU, DOD Partner Again, This Time on Prosthetics That Feel

​SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>

You Said It: Toll Roads Really Taking a Toll

The Picture's Kicking

Former Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ron Springs' Tale of Triumph Takes a Sad Detour Through Stagnation and Litigation

Merle Haggard Back Home After Lung Surgery

Turns Out, the Failed Superconducting Super Collider Was Kinda Super

Summer = Bummer

Rangers' Announcer Tom Grieve to Undergo Prostate Surgery

Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch

Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.

Three-Day Drink-On

You Say Can You C-Section?

Meet the Most Famous Rugby Player Ever to Emerge from Brookhaven College

Why I Love Mark Cuban

Shoot Up Your Kid

¡Ask a Mexican!

Uncomplementary colors

Monica at 10

A decade ago, Eduardo Greene abandoned his wife, his home and a successful restaurant, expecting a nightmare in pursuit of a dream

Best Blog

D magazine's FrontBurner

The Next Breast Thing

Build a better fake boob, and women will beat a path to your door, along with the occasional lawsuit

Gang of Four

SamulNori brings in the noise, brings in the folk

Best Churrascaria

Boi Na Braza

There's a "Can" in Cancer

Some of us might call it bad luck; he thinks of it as "25 minutes of new material"

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

With friends like that...

Protesters dog UT Southwestern over canine vivisection

Unacceptable Risk

Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?

Letters

Prime cut

Religious circumciser Rabbi Michael Rovinsky is skilled, funny, and popular among both his Jewish and gentile clients. But is this mohel a brazen self-promoter who is maiming our children by doing God's work?