The Race of His Life
When a world-class athlete like Austin’s Lance Armstrong gets cancer, it’s a shock—for him, and for every man who has ever considered himself invincible.
When a world-class athlete like Austin’s Lance Armstrong gets cancer, it’s a shock—for him, and for every man who has ever considered himself invincible.
By Jim Atkinson
The ride of his life.
By Jim Atkinson
San Antonio's Marshevet Hooker is not just any old high school sprinter; she's an Olympic gold medalist in the making. Meet her and nine other women we're betting will lead the new Texas—and the world.
The truth—what we can discern, anyway—about Tom Landry’s leukemia.
By Jim Atkinson
More than a decade ago I wrote about the virtues of the drinking life and the comforts of what I called a “bar bar.” Then I hit rock bottom. It’s been eight years now since I took my last drink—and I’m finally ready to tell the rest of the story.
By Jim Atkinson
The hybrid of my dreams.
By Jim Atkinson
Bypass surgery with almost no pain, and you get to go home three days later? Don’t have a coronary: It’s happening right now, in Texas.
By Jim Atkinson
A plug for new appliances.
By Jim Atkinson
Talking trash (and compost).
By Jim Atkinson
Lawn of a new day.
By Jim Atkinson
Jim Atkinson changes out his insulation.
By Jim Atkinson
Can Jim Atkinson change the world?
By Jim Atkinson
The esophagus explained.
By Jim Atkinson
Let’s have a heart-to-heart.
By Jim Atkinson
Sweat 101.
By Jim Atkinson
Fire ants forever. (sigh.)
By Jim Atkinson
The ABCs of HPV.
By Jim Atkinson
Ten foods to gorge on in 2007.
By Jim Atkinson
The unsweetened truth about diabetes.
By Jim Atkinson
The newest nightmare disease.
By Jim Atkinson
The buzz on mosquitoes.
By Jim Atkinson
Why ozone is indeed a menace.
By Jim Atkinson
Blood will tell.
By Jim Atkinson
Oh, say, can you see?
By Jim Atkinson
Fat versus Fit.
By Jim Atkinson
What to do if your doctor is a quack.
By Jim Atkinson
Here comes the sun.
By Jim Atkinson
Sneeze play.
By Jim Atkinson
Pain, pain, go away
By Jim Atkinson
It turns out that the toxin that’s changed a million faces has a social conscience after all. The wonders of Botox, a concentrated form of botulinum toxin, have been touted ad nauseam: By paralyzing facial muscles, it was smoothing out Hollywood’s wrinkles long before the FDA approved it, in 2002.
By Jim Atkinson
Minister of Health Jim Atkinson cures what ails us.
By Jim Atkinson
As more and more children fall off the health-insurance rolls, chaos reigns at Children's Medical Center Dallas, which used to have the best pediatric ER in Texas, and the quality of care for everyone suffers.
By Jim Atkinson
How do you know when a child molester is cured? Are you willing to take his word for it? David Wayne Jones hopes so. Thirteen years ago he was convicted of preying on little boys at the East Dallas YMCA, but he could soon be out of jail and back
By Jim Atkinson
Many Texans are woefully unprepared for what has become our fastest-growing health care problem: taking care of Mom and Dad.
By Jim Atkinson
Why Collin County is the new Dallas.
By Jim Atkinson
Historically, Southeast Texas and cancer have gone together like, well, pollution and disease. I wish I could say things were different today.
By Jim Atkinson
Are the toxic fungi that launched a thousand lawsuits really as dangerous as everyone says? Don't believe the hype.
By Jim Atkinson
A Houston couple says a hospital is responsible for their daughter's severe disabilities. Should Texas' highest court agree, the case will change health care as we know it.
By Jim Atkinson
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is put under the microscope.
By Jim Atkinson
What is the safest way to dispose of a diseased cow carcassand what does it have to do with the Ames strain of anthrax?
By Jim Atkinson
Texans love to say that everything’s bigger here, but when it comes to the waistlines in one in four of our largest cities, that’s nothing to brag about.
By Jim Atkinson
If you think your flulike symptoms could be anthrax, don't call your HMOcall your doctor. And other advice the television "experts" should have told you.
By Jim Atkinson
Why does Potter County have the state's highest mortality rate? Poverty is only one answer.
By Jim Atkinson
When I lost my father to cancer this summer, the greatest comfort I found was in understanding how to grieve. That came in handy on September 11.
By Jim Atkinson
A Dallas epidemiologist has made it his mission to learn the truth about Gulf War Syndrome, even if he has to fight the government.
By Jim Atkinson
I learned a shocking lesson when I visited San Antonio's "hot lab," where some of the world's deadliest microbes are studied. The germs are winning.
By Jim Atkinson
The prescription to treat the sickest areas in Texas isn't what you think.
By Jim Atkinson
He's all hearts.
By Jim Atkinson
The doctors at Abilene’s Voice Institute of West Texas can treat all manner of problems with the way you talk? Speech, speech!
By Jim Atkinson
When a dog chewed off a toddler's nose, cheeks, and lips, the doctors at Dallas' Children's Medical Center sprang into action.
By Jim Atkinson