Health Care
Pharmacists Ask Lege for Cover from New Medicaid Privatization
Last year, Perry pals secured a new layer of privatization in Texas' Medicaid payments. Now independent pharmacists warn it's putting them out of business.
Late last year in our story on the many ways Gov. Rick Perry’s pals have had their way in Texas (“The V.I.P. Room,” December 2011), Abby Rapoport made an ...Read More
Turning the Food Desert into an Oasis
For many Texans, it’s easier to get Cheetos, Twinkies and Ho Hos from a convenience store than fresh fruits and vegetables from a supermarket. The U.S. Depart...Read More
The Language of Prevention
Six years ago, my ob-gyn found two millimeters of cancerous cells on my cervix and told me that my uterus should be removed as a precaution. I steeled my nerves...Read More
After the Parade: Courts Ease Homecoming for Troubled Vets
By the time he was deployed to Iraq, Arthur Davis had been a Marine for 20 years.He thought nothing could faze him. In 1990 he fought in Operation Desert Shield...Read More
Quacks Fly Together: FBI reveals a network of Texas pseudo-doctors
Miracle seller Lawrence Stowe may not be in the mainstream of Texas stem cell research, but his case could signal the feds' growing interest in the state.
CBS’ 60 Minutes had its way with Lawrence Stowe in April 2010, catching the Dallas-based stem cell therapy salesman on hidden camera, promi...Read More
Fighting for Public Health in Lubbock
When the city of Lubbock made a surprise bid to close its health department last July, psychologist Brian Carr made it his personal crusade to block the move. L...Read More
Valley Middle-Schoolers Hit By Stray Bullets During Basketball Tryouts
Walls, walls, walls. That’s the solution to all our problems down on the border, and a wall is what they’re thinking of erecting after stray bullets hit two...Read More
Bad Medicine
Before two West Texas nurses brought him down, Dr. Rolando Arafiles peddled dangerous treatments in towns across Texas.
The case of Dr. Rolando Arafiles could well be the oddest in the history of Texas medicine. In 2008, Arafiles was hired as a doctor at Winkler Memorial Hospital...Read More
Budget Cuts Hit Home
A clinic in Gonzales struggles to deal with Texas' health care cuts.
In a small clinic a few blocks from the main highway that runs through the South Texas town of Gonzales, Patrick Caldwell dispenses birth control and straight t...Read More