You’ve tried everything from dieting and calorie counting to exercise boot camp and weight loss apps — but the numbers on the scale just won’t budge. Could there be something else sabotaging your efforts to lose or maintain weight? Read more
Health News & Updates
Fort Bend County government has created a medical examiner’s office and hired a medical examiner, which County Judge KP George called a “historic event.” Read more
Fort Bend County has been awarded $1.7 million to battle HIV and help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Read more
Even as a Mexican American who has spent three decades defending immigrants, I’m done with DACA. Read more
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center has received a Level 3 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). It is the first emergency center in Houston only the second in Texas to receive this accreditation. Read more
FORT WORTH (AP) — A Fort Worth hospital has stopped plans to end life support for a 9-month-old girl. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the family of Tinslee Lewis said Cook Children’s Medical Center told them Sunday that a ventilator will not be removed Sunday night as planned. Read more
HOUSTON (AP) — Researchers are uncertain about the environmental impact of toxic chemicals used to extinguish a three-day blaze at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility after some leaked into a busy commercial waterway. Read more
Caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease or other related dementias are invited to attend the Richmond-Rosenberg area caregivers’ meeting on Nov. 7. Read more
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Health Highlights from OakBend Medical Center
The Williams Way location of OakBend Medical Center held a community celebration to recognize its 10 year anniversary on Saturday, Oct.19.
Updates from Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital provides free prostheses and mastectomy bras for qualifying Fort Bend County patients who undergo a mastectomy.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital has received certification from DNV GL — Healthcare as a Primary Stroke Center, affirming the hospital’s readiness to handle a full range of stroke-related medical problems.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital has been accredited with DNV GL — Healthcare. By earning accreditation, Houston Methodist Sugar Land has demonstrated it meets or exceeds patient safety standards (Conditions of Participation) set forth by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Det Norske Veritas (DNV) process allows for more organizational innovation by encouraging t…
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital has been accredited with DNV GL — Healthcare.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital recently won a top honor in the 2019 Crystal Awards, presented by the Houston chapter of the American Marketing Association.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome palliative care specialist Channon Hudgins, M.D., to the medical staff, effective July 1.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is introducing an obstetrics (OB) hospitalist program at its Childbirth Center, improving the availability of care for moms-to-be. Hospitalists are specially trained physicians who only see patients only in the hospital, ensuring there is highly skilled care onsite 24/7.
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome rheumatologist Mohammed Bari, M.D.
