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  • News

    July 30, 2009

    Love in the Time of Leprosy: Leprosy Lives On

    In Texas and Louisiana, the disease still exists — and so does the stigma.

  • News

    July 2, 2009
  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    The Chronicle's Columnist, Buying BARC's Spin

    Photo by elvissaToday's Chron column by Lisa Falkenberg, headlined "Finally, a bit of good news out of BARC," might have been more accurately titled "When Public Relations Attacks!" What the column lacks in actual news value and insight, it makes up for by highlighting what might be one of BARC's th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Houstonians (And Others) Angle Their Way Up The Organ-Donation Queue

    The ever-worsening kidney shortage has inspired some bold concepts of late, such as organ trading and even selling. Now comes some good old-fashioned sharing -- or, maybe, exactly the opposite. LifeSharers, a budding network of more than 12,600 people across the country, including 70 or so in H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Protests Over The Proposed Shutting Of Ben Taub's Pediatrics Unit

    Photo by John Nova LomaxA few years ago, Carla Sageth was in high school, and she was dying. Her lungs were wasting away. Doctor after doctor at clinic after clinic diagnosed asthma and sent her on her way. She became unable to walk, and still her mom, who had no insurance, kept trying to find a doc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Out On A Limb Over Rosharon, For A Good Cause

    Photo by davemasterking2000If you happen to be driving through Rosharon Saturday and see 50 skydivers headed toward you, don't panic - it's not Red Dawn come to life. And don't freak out over the fact that they all just happen to be amputees, 'cause it's not a coincidence: It's the second annual Air ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Project Runway Star Talks Houston, AIDS & Stigma

    Photo courtesy Living Positive by DesignFormer Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth's been to Houston before, although he doesn't remember us. "I know I've been to Dallas, Austin and Houston, but in my brain, I can't remember which is which. So I look around while we're driving and I think, 'Th ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Fighting Cancer

    Who says Texas isn't battling cigs?

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    How Could Anyone Criticize Texas' Anti-Smoking Campaign?

    Here’s yet another list that Texas finds itself at the bottom of: the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ report of how states have been spending (or not spending) the money they’ve been receiving from the landmark 1998 multi-billion dollar settlement with Big Tobacco. Texas comes in at 46, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Rick Perry's HPV Vaccine Has A New Market: Immigrants

    Here’s yet another list that Texas finds itself at the bottom of: the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ report of how states have been spending (or not spending) the money they’ve been receiving from the landmark 1998 multi-billion dollar settlement with Big Tobacco. Texas comes in at 46, s ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    The Passion of Victoria Osteen

    A flight attendant went after the Osteens in court, bringing on trials and tribulation for one and all

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    No Smoking Ban In West U Bar (Note Single, Not Plural)

    A flight attendant went after the Osteens in court, bringing on trials and tribulation for one and all

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Have Houston Doctors Cracked the AIDS Virus?

    A flight attendant went after the Osteens in court, bringing on trials and tribulation for one and all

  • News

    June 5, 2008

    There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    MTV in Houston? YES

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Executive Director of Texas Medical Board Announces Retirement

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Deceased Inmate's Mother Files Suit Against Harris County and Taser International

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • News

    December 13, 2007

    Somerville, Smoking and Chicken Fried Porn

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    Rick Perry Talks Cancer at the Texas Life Science Conference

    The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Mail Call

    Lights Out

  • News

    August 30, 2007

    Smoked Out

    Will "self-enforcement" be enough for Houston's expanded smoking ban to work?

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    The Fantastic Foreskin: Under the Knife

    Surgeons not rushing to put back what they took away

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2007

    Oh. My. Dog.

    Surgeons not rushing to put back what they took away

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    Oh, Baby Baby

    There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2007

    Good News for AFH

    There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2007

    APRIL Donate Life Month

    There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2007

    No, Thanks. We'll Take Cancer.

    There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Penal Violations

    Texas prisons say they can’t allow condoms because they don’t allow sex. So they don’t need condoms. They just need $12 million a year to treat all the HIV-positive prisoners.

  • Music

    September 7, 2006

    Up in Smoke

    City Hall and the Greater Houston Restaurant Association once again threaten the right to light up in bars

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    In the Pink

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Letters

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Letters

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Letters

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Letters

    Surgeons are sculpting labia, reconnecting hymens and inventing a new standard of beauty in female genitalia

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    Westward Whoa!

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

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Got a Light?

    All kidding aside, why smoking may be good for Houston

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Reefer Madness

    The government says Clayton Jones shouldn't smoke marijuana. He says it's the only thing that keeps him from blowing his brains out.

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Brotherly Love

    Author J.L. King exposes men On the Down Low

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Bloodless Coup

    There'll be no waivers for patients in this experimental blood-substitute program

  • Culture

    October 9, 2003

    Extreme Makeovers

    Chuck Close takes apart people's faces and puts them back together again

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    High Scores

    Students are using drugs illegally not to party down, but to get better marks on exams

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    Getting THMPed

    Activists fight the state's plan to slash drug help for HIV patients

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    A Figure to Die For

    Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002
  • News

    July 25, 2002

    Reality Check

    Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Getting Ugly

    No increase in federal funding for the HIV-positive indigent puts Texas patients in a real bind

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Med Check

    Texas can't decide whether to pay for drug-resistance tests that could prolong the lives of those with HIV. For John Termine, it's already too late.

  • 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

    April 25, 2002

    Needling the Mayor

    Former drug czar Lee Brown has trouble negotiating a question about why there's no needle-exchange program for addicts in Houston

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