Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »

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After Ike damaged Galveston hospital, prisoners shipped elsewhere in Texas
Friday, November 14, 2008
Damage from Hurricane Ike could keep much of the Texas prison system’s primary hospital in Galveston closed for months, increasing security risks as more than 100 convicts have to be treated in public hospitals, officials said Thursday.
Brad Livingston, the prison system’s executive director, said administrators at the University of Texas Medical Read the rest of this entry »

papers, I wrote about David Coronado Jr., an infant who authorities say was severely abused and who may be taken off life support. A doctor at Children’s Medical Center reported the infant had 42 separate skeletal injuries.
Some who I’ve talked with wonder if some sort of brittle bone disease, rather than the parents, might be the culprit.
I don’t have a good way of checking that out, but you can read more about the doctor who assessed the baby
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Ike-damaged hospital, med school laying off 3,800
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, a teaching hospital severely damaged by Hurricane Ike, will lay off about 3,800 workers — nearly a third of its work force — because it is running out of money.
The University of Texas Board of Regents said in a news release that the Galveston hospital would have no money to operate in about three months, Read the rest of this entry »

The Medical Center Of Southeast Texas, Port Arthur, Damaged By Hurricane Ike
IASIS Healthcare LLC announced that The Medical Center of Southeast Texas, located in Port Arthur, Texas, was damaged during Hurricane Ike. During an initial inspection of the hospital on Sunday, IASIS employees found damage to the roof and water inside the facility. There is no municipal power service available in the community at this time. The Medical Center remains Read the rest of this entry »

TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) — The hormone cream estradiol can repair aging skin, but only if that skin has never been touched by the damaging UV rays of sunlight, new research finds.
Decades of sun damage on the face and arms and other exposed areas seem to undermine the power of the cream, according to a study in the September issue of the
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“Despite commonly held beliefs, estrogen was not able to raise collagen when the skin was damaged Read the rest of this entry »

Ike-damaged hospital, med school laying off 3,800
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, which was damaged by Hurricane Ike, is laying off about 3,800 workers because it is running out of money.
The University of Texas Board of Regents said in a news release that the teaching hospital would have no money to operate in about three months, at its current spending rate.
It wasn’t immediately known which Read the rest of this entry »