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The Texas Medical Board has ordered two Houston residents to stop practicing medicine. Both were accused of performing unlicensed cosmetic procedures.

Researchers in Boston are on the verge of what they say is a major advancement in lung cancer screening: Artificial intelligence that can detect early signs of the disease years before doctors would find it on a CT scan.

A physician who had her privileges suspended from Houston Methodist Hospital is filing a massive lawsuit.

Dr. Edward Cathright is a dentist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.

An end to the mask mandate for domestic airports and airlines?

A local doctor who grew up in Ukraine is helping to amplify the voices of the need from the medical community there.

The same questions are becoming more frequent, “Why didn’t you do this? Why didn’t you do that? Why didn’t you do this? I saw on TV that this is good,” said Dr. Joseph Varon of United Memorial Medical Center in North Houston.

HOUSTON – You may have caught last night’s inauguration special ‘Celebration America,’ which included fireworks and musical performances. I’ve been playing music for a long time with writing songs and playing in bands. He song virtually, “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers, with health care workers from across the country and American singer Demi Lovato. “Personally, being a from a family of refugees and being a first-generation Vietnamese American that’s an American dream,” he said. He said he received the invitation to perform during the celebration after he created a video early in the pandemic asking others to stay at home and ‘Help the Doctor’.

HOUSTON – A Texas physician was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for a $16 million Medicare fraud scheme, federal officials said. Hamilton was convicted by a federal jury of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to solicit and receive health care kickbacks, and two counts of false statements relating to health care matters in October 2019. Members of the conspiracy paid the patients to receive the home health care services, which were often medically unnecessary, not provided, or both, the news release said. Hamilton typically would not release the home health care paperwork until the home health care companies or their marketers paid her the kickback, authorities said, citing evidence from the case. Federal authorities said the scheme resulted in approximately millions in false and fraudulent claims for home-health services to Medicare and in Hamilton receiving over $300,000 in kickbacks.

I got really tired.”Family shocked by COVID-19 related complicationThinking they just needed fluids, the family headed to Texas Children’s Hospital. “It’s really very rare that kids get really sick from the heart perspective,” said Dr. Silvana M. Molossi, Texas Children’s Pediatric Cardiologist. So, he was sent to a first-of-its-kind clinic with Texas Children’s Sports Cardiologists and other experts. We gathered questions related to COVID and MIS-C and asked experts from Texas Children’s Hospital to help us bring you answers. “There is no-one who knows better your child than you - as a mom or you as a parent,” Dr. Molossi said.

Walgreens plans to open full-service doctors' offices in hundreds of its stores across the US during the next five years. It's part of a bigger effort by the drugstore chain to become a one-stop shop for health care. Walgreens Boots Alliance is partnering with health care company VillageMD to create the 500 to 700 primary care clinics. Walgreens' clinics will open in at least 30 metro area markets during the next five years and then 20 more markets, said Morry Smulevitz, a Walgreens spokesperson. Each clinic will occupy about 25% of an average Walgreens store, Smulevitz said.

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