Dr. Ben Raimer, a Galveston pediatrician and a leader at the University of Texas Medical Branch's office of health care policy and legislative affairs, has been named chairman of the Texas Health Disparities Task Force by Gov.

Operation: The University of Texas Medical Branch continues to strengthen its League City presence, this time leasing 15,000 square feet in the Brittany Bay Center, 1600 League City Parkway.

What's good for your heart is also good for your kidneys, according to recommendations from the Texas Campaign for Kidney Health, a collaborative of health care stakeholders seeking to prevent kidney disease in the Lone Star State.

Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind.

Last week during the 'Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium' in Galveston TX, USA, the Elsevier journal Vaccine released a supplement dedicated to vaccines for biodefense .

Although its walls are extraordinarily strong, like other blood vessels the aorta can sometimes develop bulges, called aneurysms.

Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools.

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 Galveston County Health District is giving vaccinations beginning at 9 a.m. today at its offices, 1207 Oak St., in La Marque.

A fiery crash between a 2003 Jeep Wrangler and a 1993 Buick Regal left a 28-year-old Central Texas woman dead and a 26-year-old Killeen man severely burned early Sunday morning in Killeen.

Vernon Dean Crawford was a former football player, strong and well able to work long hours in the oil field when he went to the doctor with what he thought was a chest cold.

The Galveston Alliance of Island Neighborhoods has released its own plan for rebuilding the city's public housing.

State Highway 146 reopened about 1 p.m. after being closed by a major collision near FM 517.

The Coast Guard medevaced a 43-year-old male from the motor vessel Sicily, 28 nautical miles southeast of Galveston, Wednesday.

Vical Incorporated today is presenting a strong rationale advocating the use of DNA vaccine technology for emerging and/or pandemic infectious diseases.

James Rohack is the president of the American Medical Association, which is meeting in Houston through Tuesday.

Two people were injured when a helicopter crashed on takeoff from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

A newly released report criticizes area health care providers for claiming to provide millions in charity care, while at other times denying they do so, and for lacking state-mandated polices about free and discounted medical services.

Jimmy Wu poses at a clinic in Oak Creek, Wis. Wu spent a summer in Beijing with a university faculty member observing traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture and hopes to include these in a family medicine practice someday.

Starting Monday, children 12 years old and younger no longer will be allowed to visit family and friends in John Sealy Hospital, a policy designed to slow the spread of the swine flu .