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

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

Physician assistants are healthcare professionals trained in intensive programs that mirror the medical model of physician education that must be accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, ...

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

The Teen Health Clinic is focused on extending Texas Medical Center-quality preventive health care including family planning services to Houston’s underserved youth. We work to prepare underserved ...

Provides senior leadership Section of Public Health Pediatrics. Dr. Lopez and her team design, implement and evaluation innovative strategies, programs, policies and practices to mitigate childhood ...

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 ...

BMC, Lean, & Fat must be entered in order to calculate any Z-score. DXA Z-scores are available only for ages 8 - 20 yrs. In certain browsers(Firefox, Chrome), you may ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a commonly used index of relative weight. BMI is calculated as weight (kilograms) divided by height (meters) squared. The index is often used to assess obesity in individuals.

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...