The Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine has received a $250,000, one-year award from the Avon Foundation for Women for support of BCM's efforts to provide breast cancer care at the Harris County Hospital District's Ben Taub General Hospital.

With a recently announced $125,000 grant, the Houston Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure© will continue its support of physicians in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine who provide breast cancer care to Houston's medically underserved and uninsured at Ben Taub General Hospital.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have received a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to continue their work examining the role of the protein interleukin-6, or IL-6, in resuscitation after trauma and hemorrhagic shock.

HOUSTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Harris County Hospital District Foundation honored former Mayor Bob Lanier, one of Houston's most respected and beloved citizens, with the Ben Taub Humanitarian Award during ceremonies on Wednesday, October 21st.

By Anita Hassan, Houston Chronicle Jul. 13--Colleagues of Dr. Michael DeBakey gathered Saturday morning at Baylor College of Medicine to remember the legendary heart surgeon's work and life. "Last night, The Texas Medical Center and the world lost Dr. Michael E.