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Healthy Habits: Adding mindfulness to exercise routine

September 9, 2015 Dr. Mary Brandt, Healthy Habits, Houston, Nutrition, Nutrition and Wellness, pediatrics, Surgery

Taking care of your health is a priority and nobody knows that more than physicians and healthcare providers.

Summertime tips for people with diabetes

August 13, 2015 Baylor College of Medicine, Christin Carr, Diabetes, Dr. Maria Redondo, Healthcare, Houston, hydration, pediatrics, Summer, Texas Children's Hospital, wellness

Summer may be drawing to a close, but the heat definitely isn’t going anywhere and that can lead you to look for ways to cool

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Minimizing risks: Education, testing part of lead exposure screening event

August 12, 2015 Community, Dr. Marcus Hanfling, Dr. Winnie Hamilton, environmental health, Events, Healthcare, Houston, lead exposure, lead posioning, pediatrics, screening event

While many of the causes of lead exposure have been reduced in our daily lives, Dr. Marcus Jay Hanfling, assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor

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Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center ushered into elite class of National Cancer Institute centers

July 30, 2015 Awards and Honors, Cancer, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Dr. Kent Osborne, Education, Grants, Healthcare, Houston, Men's Health, outreach, pediatrics, Research, training, Women's Health

Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center has been awarded the highest designation possible by the National Cancer Institute – Comprehensive Status.

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Starke lends expertise to national advisory committee to end tuberculosis

July 6, 2015 Audrey M. Marks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Community, Dr. Jeffrey Starke, health policy, Healthcare, Houston, infectious disease, pediatrics, tuberculosis

For the last three decades Dr. Jeffrey Starke, professor of pediatrics-infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, has spent his career treating children infected with

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Scavenger hunt helps pediatric bariatric support group put theory into practice

June 1, 2015 bariatric, Baylor College of Medicine, CHEF course, Community, Education, Healthcare, Healthy Eating, Houston, Nutrition and Wellness, pediatrics, Student Life, Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital

What’s the best way to get teens at their bariatric surgery classes excited about healthy food? For several years, students from Baylor College of Medicine’s

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Helping Swaziland’s children fight tuberculosis

May 19, 2015 Community, Events, Global Health, Global Tuberculosis Program at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Healthcare, Katherine Ngo, pediatrics, Swaziland, tuberculosis

Beyond the ribbon cutting and celebration of opening a new state-of-the-art facility for the Global Tuberculosis Program at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of

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Finding tools for families with autistic children

April 2, 2015 Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy, Autism, Autism Speaks, Community, Community Living and Assistance Support Services, Dr. Sherry Vinson, Education, Glenna Vickers, Houston, pediatrics, Texas

In recognition of World Autism Awareness Day, Dr. Sherry Vinson, assistant professor of developmental pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, shared resources that parents of

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Baylor couple providing cancer care in Africa

March 31, 2015 Amanda Slone, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Botswana, Cancer, Community, Dr. Jeremy Slone, Pediatric Cancer, pediatrics, Research, Texas Children's Cancer Center's international program

As a medical student, Dr. Jeremy Slone developed an interest in global health. He also was interested in pediatric oncology, but he didn’t know how to

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Cytomegalovirus: What you should know

February 12, 2015 Baylor College of Medicine, Congenital CMV Disease Research Clinic & Registry, Cytomegalovirus, Houston, Maddie's Mission, pediatrics, Pregnancy, Women's Health

Have you ever heard of cytomegalovirus (CMV)? Odds are that you have not. I first learned about CMV one year ago, but it was too