For many people, medications may be needed to treat high blood pressure, but for everyone making lifestyle changes can make a ...

Baylor Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has opened an orthopedic clinic at Kirby Glen and is accepting new patients.

The Core Pediatrics Clerkship (6 credits) is a six-week clinical rotation designed to develop students' skills in diagnosis and management of acute and chronic illness in children. Students have ...

When a new year begins, many people have resolutions or goals to eat healthier. Some may be asking the question: “Where ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, University of California at Irvine and Ben Taub Hospital in Houston are the first ...

Why monitor blood pressure (BP)? Hypertension (high blood pressure) is an important health issue in children, because of its association with obesity. High blood pressure is considered a risk factor ...

The McNair Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine was established in 2007 to recruit talented scientists and physician-scientists from around the world to the Texas Medical Center. These ...

Microbial communities are increasingly appreciated to play important roles in human health and disease. Advances in DNA sequencing now allow us to profile these communities and detect potential ...

"Establishing extra-terrestrial standards of clinical excellence." The Baylor College of Medicine – Massachusetts General Hospital Space Medicine advanced specialty training program is a jointly ...

Zika virus, first identified in 1947 in Uganda, had been thought to produce a rare and mild disease until it suddenly emerged in Brazil in 2015 and spread explosively through South America, Central ...

In a healthy human adult, bacterial cells outnumber human cells, but the identity and degree of diversity of these bacteria in a single individual, their variability from person to person, and their ...

The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery hosts local faculty and outstanding regional or national speakers, who present on a range of surgical topics in weekly grand rounds. When active, Surgery ...