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Baylor College of Medicine

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Free for All: Art Without a Price Tag

    Houston gets a visit from architect Hermes Mallea who is dropping by Brazos Bookstore on Friday to sign his book Great Houses of Havana: A Century of Cuban Style. The book features wonderful photographs of some of the most beautiful homes in Havana. One shows a courtyard, glowing in the evening lig ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Calling All Sluts

    Time to fight back

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    A Possible Houston Cure For Crack Addiction Runs Into Red-Tape Problems

    Thomas R. Karsten believes he has a vaccine for coke​While a Houston doctor thinks he has found the cure for cocaine addiction, bureaucratic red tape is hindering the vaccine's approval and building doubts for its future success. "My hopes are pretty simple: number one, find some company in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Health Dept. Roundup

    "You usin' that improperly manufactured utensil to serve food to me?"​Debris, dirty utensils, broken thermometers, contaminated sinks, broken plumbing, dusty vents. Someday a real rain will come and wash all the health code violators off the streets. Until then, check out these excerpts from t ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    One Last Hit of K-2

    Fake weed's final freewheeling days

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ

    Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Chances Are...

    Popular lesbian bar Chances is done.

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    DeBakey PTA Takes Over Uniform Sales; Students Cry Excuse Me But Foul!

    DeBakey's uniform shirt​DeBakey High School for Health Professions (aligned with the Baylor College of Medicine) is one of the city's toughest schools to get into -- a 2007 report said for every 1,200 applicants, 250 are accepted.Students there are hard-core dedicated in terms of studying, attenda ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    "How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination"

    An expert on Nazi medical practices shows us the stark reality of the Third Reich

  • News

    June 18, 2009
  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    The Closing Of UH's Pre-School Is Getting Nasty

    When last Hair Balls looked into the sudden closure of the Human Development Lab, UH's venerable and acclaimed (if ominously named) pre-school, the situation was just starting to simmer. By now the stew over on Wheeler is on full boil. A Save HDLS web site has been created, and parents have proteste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Photoshop Phun At The Baylor College Of Medicine

    The wonders of Photoshop are bountiful -- they let Sooner football fans taunt UT; they allow people to make bold, trenchant analysis of the current socio-political world by showing George Bush in his "Mission Accomplished" flightsuit in unlikely settings; they probably have something to do with lolc ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Donor Babies Search for Their Anonymous Fathers

    All grown up, some children of sperm donors are trying to break through the secrecy that keeps them from knowing their family history

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Executive Director of Texas Medical Board Announces Retirement

    All grown up, some children of sperm donors are trying to break through the secrecy that keeps them from knowing their family history

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    Recommended Reading: The New Yorker’s Story About T. Don Hutto Residential Center

    All grown up, some children of sperm donors are trying to break through the secrecy that keeps them from knowing their family history

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    Westward Whoa!

    Stem cell restrictions could send Texas Medical Center researchers fleeing to California

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    Sugar Coated

    This Baylor medical "expert" cashed in on infomercials. Now he's showing how things go better with Coke.

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    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.

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Helping Out a Roomie

    City contracts for a pal turn into rent money for Mark Ellis

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Visitors' Guide

    Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Wild Kingdom

    The furries are fighting like animals, just for a little respect

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The furries are fighting like animals, just for a little respect

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Houston Music Map

    Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Skin Game

    Complaints of lewd conduct come from an ex-stripper

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Over and Out

    Baylor balks at budget questions and boots a new hire

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Down the Hall

    Lurid sex allegations can't keep Baylor's big-time lobbyist from bouncing back

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    Child Support

    The same extreme measures that saved Sidney Miller at birth also severely disabled her 11 years ago. Texas courts are still trying to determine who should pay for it -- and could set a legal precedent in the process.

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Bayou City Body Snatchers

    How cold war fears fueled a hot market for Houston's human parts business.

  • Dining

    March 29, 2001

    Side Order of Worms?

    You like fresh salmon? So do marine parasites.

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Bobsledder

    Meg Henderson

  • Dining

    September 7, 2000

    High on Fat

    Lard may be a four-letter word, but you shouldn't treat it as one

  • Dining

    August 10, 2000

    Oh, the Noise, Noise, Noise

    Eating out can be hazardous to your hearing

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Gray

    Versed in Science. Some questions pathologist Michael Lieberman can't answer in the lab

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Drowning on Dry Land

    Rising asthma rates have experts scratching their heads - and children struggling to breathe

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Tit for Tat

    A big anonymous boob bars a large fake breast from the medical center food drive

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Immune to Reason

    Hundreds of thousands of Texas children, including 250,000 newborn babies, are routinely vaccinated against hepatits B each year. Why? Good question.

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Crushing the Opposition

    Baylor and Fulbright & Jaworski -- with the help of a lame duck judge -- see to it that Bonnie Dunbar won't get a chance to tell all in court

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Letters

    Baylor and Fulbright & Jaworski -- with the help of a lame duck judge -- see to it that Bonnie Dunbar won't get a chance to tell all in court

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Heal Thyself

    Rapid detox leaves a nurse suffering unforeseen side effects

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Biological Disaster

    Zonagen Inc. took its name from Bonnie Dunbar's groundbreaking research into contraceptive vaccines. Then, when she wasn't looking, the company took her research.

  • Calendar

    August 21, 1997

    Press Picks

    Zonagen Inc. took its name from Bonnie Dunbar's groundbreaking research into contraceptive vaccines. Then, when she wasn't looking, the company took her research.

  • Calendar

    July 10, 1997

    Press Picks

    Zonagen Inc. took its name from Bonnie Dunbar's groundbreaking research into contraceptive vaccines. Then, when she wasn't looking, the company took her research.

  • News

    April 10, 1997

    Bursting the Bubble

    "Bubble Boy" David Vetter was hardly the happy, well-adjusted child portrayed in the media. Thirteen years after his death, his friend Mary Murphy is fighting to tell his story.

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    The True Tradition of Houston

    "Bubble Boy" David Vetter was hardly the happy, well-adjusted child portrayed in the media. Thirteen years after his death, his friend Mary Murphy is fighting to tell his story.

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    Stinkin' Diet

    What's that smell? It's Aromatrim, the very latest alternative to sweat

  • Music

    September 14, 1995

    A Band's Dissolve

    Banana Blender Surprise calls it quits or do they?

  • News

    July 20, 1995

    The Insider

    Banana Blender Surprise calls it quits or do they?

  • Calendar

    February 2, 1995

    Press Picks

    Banana Blender Surprise calls it quits or do they?

  • News

    November 24, 1994

    Why Die?

    At 80, Miller Quarles figures he should have 100 good years left. And Houston's apostle of life extension is determined to find them.

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