Subject: Surgery

• Miss MASH: Dr. Michael E. DeBakey Awarded Congressional Gold Medal

  November 27, 2007

• Web Extra: The TSU Toronadoes

  December 12, 2007

• Emo Poems About Adult Every Day Life

  April 4, 2008

• Astros-Giants: Bad Calls from Cecil Cooper and Richard Justice

  August 12, 2008

• Nature of the Beast

  Plastic surgeon Billy Ringer has been sued ten times for malpractice. He's on probation for sexual misconduct. He sewed a needle into Colleen Guidy. But he's still in business -- cutting, vacuuming, rearranging and, it seems, injuring patients.

  April 12, 2001

• A Figure to Die For

  Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

  January 2, 2003

• Cut & Run

  June 20, 1996

• Malpractice

  September 26, 1996

• Tracking "Eric the Red"

  May 28, 1998

• Best Billboard

  September 21, 2000

• Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life?

  May 1, 2008

• Julie Andrews

  Acting royalty Dame Julie is the latest to appear in the Brilliant Lecture series

  November 29, 2007

• Mail Call

  Coin Flipping

  August 2, 2007

• Rock-Hard Abs

  January 26, 2006

• All's Mel

  March 2, 2006

• The Fantastic Foreskin: Under the Knife

  Surgeons not rushing to put back what they took away

  July 12, 2007

• The Fantastic Foreskin

  Circumcised men are employing weights and pulleys to cover themselves back up

  July 12, 2007

• Brown, Proud and Sayin' It Loud?

  January 18, 2007

• In the Pink

  Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  May 11, 2006

• Exposed Nerve

  Cyberonics has implanted its pacemaker in thousands of epileptics. It wants to expand to the depression market. Still needed: an accounting of those who died or were injured after receiving its implant.

  April 7, 2005

• Ground Zero

  Houston's been the No. 1 city in America in the obesity crisis. But hype doesn't mean help.

  November 18, 2004

• Best Charity

  September 23, 2004

• Hard to Stomach

  A penalized doctor blames a medical giant for botched weight-loss surgeries

  January 1, 2004

• Astro Author

  Larry Dierker remembers the decades he spent with the home team

  July 10, 2003

• Les Savy Fav, with 764-HERO and Swearing at Motorists

  Thursday, May 2

  May 2, 2002

• Benefit for Pete Mayes and Hamp Simmons

  A concert for under-the-weather bluesmen

  September 21, 2000

• Image Augmentation

  Plastic surgeon Franklin Rose saves his best makeover for himself

  December 30, 1999

• Carlos Chaves, Mall Surgeon

  Sure, an unlicensed doctor was performing liposuction at a hair salon. Stranger still: Clients kept showing up.

  November 11, 1999

• News of the Weird

  June 17, 1999

• Trial by Video

  AG Dan Morales may not have won in court, but he won where it matters -- on TV

  March 6, 1997

• Bullet Proof

  The D.A.'s office gets under the skin of an accused robber

  September 26, 1996

• Great Lengths

  If you answer those ads on the sports pages, maybe what you really need is a shrink

  January 26, 1995

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Levon Helm, Muted but Masterful

  Levon Helm's doctor must have the patience of a saint. The former Band drummer underwent surgery to remove polyps in his throat barely a week ago, but instead of canceling Saturday's ACL appearance, he ceded vocal duties to several members of his plus-size band, including leader Larry Campbell, keyboardist Brian Mitchell, Allison Krauss soundalike Teresa Williams and Helm's daughter Amy.Even then, Rocks Off glanced up at the stage more than once and caught the spry Helm singing along, once durin

  October 4, 2009