Medical and Health Section 2013

The 2013 special publication published in El Paso Inc. and Southwest Senior features local and national trends on medicine and health and incl…

Local institutions are steadily working to put El Paso at the forefront of biomedical breakthroughs. From mental health to drug addiction to n…

More than three decades ago an El Paso brain scientist discovered, almost by accident, a drug that rolls back symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

Obamacare doesn’t take full effect for another year, but businesses are already worrying about the cost of providing the health insurance to e…

Editor’s note: The following is an account by a person who underwent electroconvulsive therapy, formerly known as “shock treatment.” The write…

When it comes to doctor’s appointments, we’ve all been there at one time or another. Waiting forever in a room full of sick people. Feeling ru…

The Hippocratic Oath may state “do no harm,” but for many patients, that mantra does not seem to extend into the waiting room.

“Physical therapy” may sound like something that involves a sweaty workout but still produces some sort of soothing afterglow. In some ways, t…

This year’s flu season is shaping up to be “worse than average and particularly bad for the elderly,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the nation’s top …

A rising number of patients, many of them young people, are being treated in emergency rooms for complications related to highly caffeinated e…

After an estimated 500,000 patients in the U.S. have received a type of artificial hip that is failing early in many cases, the Food and Drug …