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Dr. Shawn Pierce has passed his board examination for Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine which gives the ETMC Wound Healing Center, three board-certified physicians.

Americans are unsure that a healthcare reform bill introduced this week is the solution to problems with the U.S. healthcare system, according to a poll created and commissioned by a public policy expert at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Houston real estate developer Hines has become part of an American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, Air Conditioning Engineers pilot program to better inform building owners and tenants of the energy usage at their buildings.

Using computer algorithms and infrared imaging, Houston researchers have created a test for sleep apnea that detects the common but potentially serious disorder without a tangle of sensors attached to the patient's body during sleep.

Do you want to have a happier holiday season? Then don't build your expectations too high, says the chairman of the counseling department at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. One reason people get depressed and frustrated at Thanksgiving and other holidays is expectations for happiness so often don't match reality, says Samuel Gladding, ...

The aorta, the body's largest artery, stretches from the chest to below the kidneys, expanding and contracting with the pressure of blood driven directly into it by the heart.

The aorta, the body's largest artery, stretches from the chest to below the kidneys, expanding and contracting with the pressure of blood driven directly into it by the heart.

This is the "have-it-your-way" era, a time when everything from fast food to four-course meals can be customized, personalized and engineered to your specifications.

Jon O. Lundberg is in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has joined an online program that matches volunteers with clinical research studies.

Non-spherical nano-/micro-particles can drift laterally in a linear laminar flow under the concurrent effect of hydrodynamic and inertial forces.

Abstract In single particle analysis, two-dimensional alignment is a fundamental step intended to put into register various particle projections of biological macromolecules collected at the electron microscope.

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's top nursing executive has been recognized with nursing's highest honor.

They wanted to know how long it takes to become a doctor, how hard it is and how much money you can make.

Much more than a comedic story arc on your favorite hospital drama, priapism is a serious condition that remains a mystery to scientists and a curse for people who experience it.

What do you get when you combine the smarts of a computer scientist and a doctor of sleep medicine? A cool, less invasive way to figure out if patients have sleep apnea , a common problem that causes a snoring a person to momentarily stop breathing while sleeping.

Main Category: Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 Thousands of men are afflicted with an embarrassing and painful condition that triggers spontaneous, long-lasting erections.

Back in the 1970s, while watching an angioplasty to widen clogged coronary arteries, John Simpson, Ph.D., M.D., thought there had to be an easier way to perform the procedure.

Thousands of men are afflicted with an embarrassing and painful condition that triggers spontaneous, long-lasting erections.

Hospitals at the Texas Medical Center say they are prepared to handle a surge of patients sick from the H1N1 virus.