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Forensics
on Call
Reconstructing
Breasts with a
Dermal Bra
Adult-Onset
Food Allergies
Explaining Heart
Defects and Repairs
with Animation
Six Questions for
David Callender, M.D.
7 Curated: Dresses with prints
inspired by skin diseases
8 Spotlight: Gary Tinterow, director of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
11 Vitals: Green light therapy
27 Next Med: Using magnetism
to target breast tumors
34 Field Notes
36 Calendar
ON THIS PAGE: Roger Creager performs at the Armadillo Palace in
Houston, Texas on Dec. 28, 2019. Weeks earlier, his father's life
was saved at Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute-Texas
Medical Center. See page 12.
ON THE COVER: Mascots help boost the brand identities of TMC
institutions, including Rice University's Sammy the Owl, center, who is
surrounded by Children's Memorial Hermann's Topper, Texas Southern
University's Tiger, Mogie of Ronald McDonald House Houston, Hunter of
St. Dominic Village and the LifeGift dove in flight dangling from the ear
of Texas Heart Institute's Cool-E Robot.
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