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Family Life Medical Family Practice Dr. Kyle Scarborough is a family doctor at Family Life Medical in Conroe, Texas.
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Dr. Scarborough offers care for the entire family, including wellness exams, diabetes care, hypertension treatment, geriatric care, well woman exam, school physicals, and pre-ops and hospital follow ups. Dr. Scarborough is a native Texan who received his undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University, College Station, and earned his medical degree at University of Texas. He completed a residency at Southwest Memorial Hospital, Houston in 1992. Dr. Scarborough moved to Conroe in 1993 to join the Sadler Clinic. After 25 years in practice, Dr. Scarborough is now deeply tied to his community and is proud to offer the best in medical care through his private practice. Dr. Scarborough, fondly known as "Dr. K" by many of his patients, serves patients of all ages and is happy to work with every member of your family. Call Family Life Medical anytime for an appointment with Dr. Scarborough.

What’s Going Around – Halloween SafetyTrick or Treaters will out and about Friday night. About four thousand goblins wil...
10/29/2025

What’s Going Around – Halloween Safety

Trick or Treaters will out and about Friday night. About four thousand goblins will only be haunting local emergency rooms. The most common Halloween injuries are lacerations from pumpkin carving, followed by head and joint injuries from tripping and falling. Pedestrian auto injuries, while rare, can be tragic.

Here are some tips to keep little monsters safe:
-Use pumpkin carving tools instead of knives. They’re widely available and inexpensive.
-Add some reflective tape to costumes so drivers can see them. Glow sticks are even better.
-Pirate swords and daggers should be plastic or rubber. Never send them out with the real thing!
-Avoid tripping and falling by trimming up princess gowns and ghostly trappings with scissors.
-Encourage kids to take masks off between houses.
-Avoid crossing decorated yards covered with extension cords.
-Give actual flame decorations a wide berth. Costumes can be flammable.
- Back home, pour “the loot” out on a table and discard any items that appear tampered with.

Thought For the Day: A few precautions, if they’re done right, can avoid a real-life Halloween fright.

Contributed by family practice doctor Kyle Scarborough, M.D.

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The Family Life Medical staff are having their first annual Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Contest! And WOW!! Did they eve...
10/29/2025

The Family Life Medical staff are having their first annual Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Contest! And WOW!! Did they ever set a high bar!
Please look over the photos and vote in the “comments “ section for the :
A) Best in Patch
B)Scariest
C) Funniest
D) Cutest

You can also drop by to see these amazing projects in person and vote for your favorites!

The entry numbers are in the photos of the captions.
Voting closes at 5 PM Thursday!
Please help us pick some deserving winners!

What’s Going Around – Fall AllergiesRagw**d is abundant in Texas in the early fall. It’s a valuable food source for wild...
10/24/2025

What’s Going Around – Fall Allergies
Ragw**d is abundant in Texas in the early fall. It’s a valuable food source for wildlife, from butterflies to songbirds to livestock. For humans, it is a common source of allergies. Seventy-five percent of allergy sufferers are sensitive to ragw**d.

Signs and Symptoms: Itchy, watery eyes and sneezing are common. Wheezing is likely with asthma.

What to do: Benadryl is the traditional choice of antihistamine. Claritin, Allegra, and others are longer acting and less sedating. Eating local honey is thought to build natural allergy resistance, but is unproven.
Steroid nasal sprays are a good option. They are better at prevention than treating attacks.
Steroid shots and pills relieve symptoms but can affect your immune system. Avoid flu shots for about two weeks if you’ve taken them. Steroids can also raise blood sugars in diabetics. Persistent allergies may require testing by an allergist, and desensitizing therapy.
Reduce exposure with HEPA air filters and closing windows. Avoid “high histamine” foods.

Thought for the day: Ragw**d allergies are here for the fall. Know all your options to make the best call.

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What’s Going Around – Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment Breast cancer deaths have dropped by forty percent since the ...
10/17/2025

What’s Going Around – Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment

Breast cancer deaths have dropped by forty percent since the eighties, primarily due to earlier detection. But that’s not the whole story. Breakthroughs in treatment and medication have given new hope to patients even with advanced cancer.
Treatment is now individualized more than ever. While mastectomy is often the best option for survival, some women do just as well with removal of the lump plus local radiation. Chemotherapy is still the standard for advanced cases. But in certain cases immunotherapy uses your immune system to target cancer cells just as effectively without the side effects. If chemotherapy is required, new advances in supportive medications can minimize those side effects.

What to do: Once a suspicious lump is found prompt assessment is critical. A thorough workup is done to determine level of aggression and if it has spread. Recent advances include genetic profiling of the tumor to better assess specific types of treatment.

Thought for the day: If a tumor is discovered, don’t feel defeated. Get it profiled and staged, and then get it it treated!

Contributed by family practice doctor Kyle Scarborough, M.D. You can reach him at www.familylifemedical.com

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Special thanks to Codi Leggett for creating our Breast Cancer Awareness display at Family Life Medical

What’s Going Around – Breast Cancer Screening Great news! Deaths from breast cancer have dropped a whopping forty-five p...
10/10/2025

What’s Going Around – Breast Cancer Screening

Great news! Deaths from breast cancer have dropped a whopping forty-five percent since the eighties, primarily due early detection by mammograms. Cases caught early have a ninety percent cure rate. That number drops to thirty percent once it spreads throughout the body. The latest imaging technique, known as 3D imaging, is the most sophisticated and sensitive to date. Alternatives such as ultrasound and thermography exists, but none have the proven track record of mammograms. Some women worry about breast implant rupture. The risk is extremely small. And delaying your imaging only increases the risk of cancer spreading before it’s found.

What to do: Get a mammogram scheduled when you are eligible. Different health organizations vary a bit on when you should get your first mammogram, but age forty seems to be the general consensus. Opinions also vary on when to stop getting mammograms. I think you should get them annually as long as you’re healthy enough to treat anything that is found.

Thought for the day: Yes, breast cancer is truly beatable! Catch it early, while it’s treatable.

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Last weekend the staff of Family Life Medical headed to Houston to share in the 2025 Race For A Cure Breast Cancer event...
10/07/2025

Last weekend the staff of Family Life Medical headed to Houston to share in the 2025 Race For A Cure Breast Cancer event.
We were there to support our dear friend and team member Brenda, and celebrate her life as a successful survivor!
Well done, Brenda! We love you!!
(Teammates, please share your photos below!)

What’s Going Around – Poison IvyThe first day of summer is this Friday, and outdoor activities are in high gear. So is ...
06/17/2025

What’s Going Around – Poison Ivy
The first day of summer is this Friday, and outdoor activities are in high gear. So is Poison Ivy growth. The noxious w**d features leaves that are covered with a shiny oily resin called urushiol. It is highly irritating to the skin.

Signs and Symptoms:
The streaky lines of redness and blisters are commonly found on arms and legs. It can be spread by rubbing or scratching at irritated skin. Shortness of breath, wheezing, and severe eye irritation can be caused by smoke from burning wood or leaf piles containing the plant.

What to do:
Wash affected areas immediately. Carefully remove clothes that may contain the resin. Calamine lotion and antihistamines help with itching. Topical, oral, and even injectable steroids may be required to stop the inflammation and bring relief. Avoidance is always best. Learn to recognize the waxy serrated leaves, arraigned three to a stem. Beware: the resin can also sneak indoors clinging to the fur of adventurous pets.

Thought for the day:
A wise man steers clear whenever he sees waxy plants with leaves in threes.

“What’s Going Around” is contributed by family practice doctor Kyle Scarborough, M.D. and appears every Wednesday in “The Courier” and affiliated papers serving Conroe and Montgomery County. You can reach him at www.familylifemedical.com.

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A lot of working folks have been asking for this. Looking forward to providing this service for you!
09/05/2024

A lot of working folks have been asking for this. Looking forward to providing this service for you!

WHAT’S GOING AROUND: GRILLING IT UP FOR LABOR DAY The Labor Day Weekend is approaching, along with time-honore...
08/28/2024

WHAT’S GOING AROUND:

GRILLING IT UP FOR LABOR DAY

The Labor Day Weekend is approaching, along with time-honored tradition of outdoor grilling. Unfortunately, some traditional grilling techniques can be pretty unhealthy. Blackened or charred meat is high in heterocyclic amines (HCA’s), and smoke from fat drippings is full of polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAH’s). These byproducts have been shown to cause colon cancer, and increase risk of pancreatic cancer.
The good news: Experienced grillers can greatly reduce this risk with a few clever adjustments.
WHAT TO DO: Use a marinated rub. Marination seems to greatly reduce HCA’s. Adding rosemary to meat also reduces HCA formation.
Avoid charring the meat by using a lower flame. Cut away the charred portions away while eating.
Avoid letting smoke from fat drippings directly contact the meat.
Propane grills are much safer, and better for the environment, than charcoal fired counterparts.
Other suggestions:
Grill up some chicken and fish as a healthier alternative to beef.
Swap out high fat side dishes for grilled vegetable shish kebabs.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Grillers will be busy on Labor Day. The good ones will know the healthier way!

“What’s Going Around” appears every Wednesday in the health section of The Courier and affiliated newspapers.

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Three days ago, Hurricane Beryl rolled over our city. My clinic was flooded and left without power.Tomorrow we are on co...
07/11/2024

Three days ago, Hurricane Beryl rolled over our city. My clinic was flooded and left without power.
Tomorrow we are on course to start seeing patients again.
To get here, it took:
An Entergy repair crew whose names I’ll never know,
A truck driver to get gasoline to the pumps for our cars,
Lisa, our property manager to line up repairs,
Kevin, who spent hours into the night with us trying to limit water damage,
Amanda and Robin and Es, helping push water out of the clinic and saving equipment,
Nick, who brought equipment from his home to fight the damage, and part of his crew,
Tammey and Amanda (again!) spending hours on the phones every day trying to reach out to patients in need,
Our five providers, who did the best they could from their own homes for patients who were stranded without help, including one house call,
Our housekeeping crew, who helped get our clinic to a usable condition, and
Our reception staff and nurses, who will leave their homes, some still without power, to check patients in.

When I sit down with my first patient after this crisis, I’ll be sitting on the shoulders of over forty others who got us into the exam room together.
We are all interconnected, and everyone’s role is vital to the chain.
We should all be thankful for the others that make our lives possible.
See you soon.

We have power! Now the cleanup begins…. Trying HARD for business as usual on Monday. Dont give up on us!
07/11/2024

We have power! Now the cleanup begins…. Trying HARD for business as usual on Monday. Dont give up on us!

FAMILY LIFE MEDICAL is still closed due to loss of power and some flooding in the clinic. We are working very hard to re...
07/10/2024

FAMILY LIFE MEDICAL is still closed due to loss of power and some flooding in the clinic. We are working very hard to restore the clinic and get back to business. We will check every day at 6:30 am for power, and call scheduled patients personally to reschedule if needed. We are also trying to refill necessary medications over the phone during this time. Please submit requests through the portal at Familylifemedical.com.
Hang in there, and stay in touch.
We want to see you as much as you want to see us!

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603 S. Conroe Medical Drive Suite 100
Conroe, TX
77304

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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