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Healthcare on wheels: Using mobile clinics to reach children all over Houston

April 26, 2024 children,  Houston,  medically underserved,  mobile healthcare

Almost 12% of all children in Houston are uninsured or have never seen a healthcare provider, but a mobile healthcare program at Baylor and Texas

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A before-and-after picture of Rebecca Scavello showing her weight loss progress.
The Stitch

Is 2024 your year for weight loss surgery?

January 17, 2024 gastric bypass,  Houston,  Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery,  SADI-s,  sleeve gastrectomy,  Weight Loss,  weight loss surgery

Baylor Medicine weight loss surgeon Dr. Juliet Holder-Haynes talks about one patient’s weight loss journey.

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Policywise

Limited access to outpatient child psychiatric services in major U.S. cities during COVID-19

June 8, 2023 Chicago,  child psychiatric services,  child psychiatrist,  Houston,  Insurance,  Los Angeles,  Mental Health,  pediatric patients,  psychiatric services

In the midst of a pediatric mental health crisis, we conducted a study, along with other Baylor College of Medicine medical students and psychiatry residents,

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Policywise

Forced to flee: Barriers to care in local refugee populations

August 12, 2022 Houston,  inequities,  marginalized population,  migration crisis,  Obstacles to care,  Refugee,  trauma

With an unrivaled 100 million individuals forcibly displaced from their homes in the past year, the world has witnessed a global refugee and migration crisis.

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Policywise

“To see yourself seeing” 

February 4, 2022 clinical ethics,  Fellowship,  Houston,  Houston Methodist,  Narrative Medicine,  NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

It is perhaps slightly unprofessional to admit this, but one of the things I was most excited about as I embarked on a week’s trip

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Policywise

Emergency Medical Services decision making on where to transport a child

January 7, 2022 Child,  Emergency care,  Emergency Medical Services,  EMS,  Houston,  pediatrics,  Texas Children's Hospital

Emergency care does not begin in the hospital; it begins the moment a patient or bystander recognizes the emergency. When someone calls 911 for an

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Policywise

Ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic

June 28, 2021 AIDS,  Education,  HIV,  Houston,  South

A deeper dive into how the Houston AIDS Education and Training Center is building a community to treat and prevent HIV.

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Momentum

Throwback Thursday: New beginnings

September 6, 2018 History,  Houston,  Nicole Blanton,  Texas Medical Center,  Throwback Thursday

If you study or work in the Texas Medical Center, you have likely visited or seen the TMC Library. This 1954 photo from the Baylor

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Momentum

Celebrating 75 years in Houston

July 12, 2018 History,  Houston,  Throwback Thursday

On July 12, 1943, Baylor University College of Medicine held its first classes in Houston. More than seven decades (and one name change) later, Baylor

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From the 2003 Aesculapian yearbook, courtesy of the Baylor College of Medicine Archives
Momentum

Throwback Thursday: Hang In There, Houston

September 14, 2017 Andy Phifer,  Houston,  Hurricane Harvey,  Throwback Thursday

Things have been hard for the city of Houston in the last few weeks. Hurricane Harvey took a toll on the city, and the effects

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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