For the Dixon household in Palestine, the day usually starts with mom, dad and their two kids getting dressed and heading out to work and school. However, one morning in February, everyone left the house except mom, who wasn’t feeling well. Leah Dixon, 40, the chief operating officer of the UT Health East Texas Physicians…

When you are sick at home and cannot get out to visit a healthcare provider, there is now a service that helps you get personalized healthcare in the comfort of your own home: on-demand video visits. Leah Dixon, chief operating officer of UT Health East Texas Physicians, said the service is convenient and very easy…

Melisa Collum is very familiar with being inside a hospital. After working at hospitals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then Wheeling, West Virginia, Collum moved to East Texas to care for her mother. She continued her nursing career at UT Health Athens where she worked on the medical/surgical floor, the intensive care unit and the emergency…

For Shelby Grimes, a 30-year-old single mom in Lufkin, her dependency on food for comfort started in her teens. “I used to dance and was very active in high school,” she recalled. “But eventually I got into different extracurricular activities, started working a job and my activity level changed a lot. I even lost a…

When John Gaston woke up that spring morning in 2015, something didn’t feel right. The 64-year-old was familiar with having shortness of breath because he had asthma his entire life. However, this shortness of breath, along with a lack of energy, was something new. John called his primary care physician and was examined later that…