Subject: National Institutes of Health

• That's Hotze

  August 3, 2006

• Miller's Crossing

  Frozen, cloned or retooled, Miller Quarles plans to live forever. But time is running out.

  September 14, 2000

• Burning Shoe Leather

  The Chron's Marshall is out there reporting, dammit

  August 1, 2002

• A Figure to Die For

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

  January 2, 2003

• Poor, Proud, But Independent

  April 25, 1996

• The Angelides Affair

  March 20, 1997

• Biological Disaster

  August 20, 1998

• Crushing the Opposition

  October 8, 1998

• Immune to Reason

  June 3, 1999

• 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?

  June 5, 2008

• Monkey Business

  Primates -- destined for laboratory research -- are being brought into a compound in Houston so carefully and quietly that no one knows they're here

  August 31, 2006

• Horse Flesh

  Texas struggles with what to do with its overabundance of Equus caballus, while Europeans wait with open mouths

  April 13, 2006

• Doctor Nice

  July 21, 2005

• The Halo Challenge

  Master Chief, a weapons-toting super-enhanced human, is the only being who can save the earth. A video gamer from Texas is the world champion at helping him do just that — thousands of times over.

  January 6, 2005

• Ground Zero

  Houston's been the No. 1 city in America in the obesity crisis. But hype doesn't mean help.

  November 18, 2004

• Gut Reactions

  Plus: Catcher in the Wry, The Brown Brown Vote, Super-Kid Cynics

  January 16, 2003

• Over and Out

  Baylor balks at budget questions and boots a new hire

  November 21, 2002

• Agent of Doom

  Former enemies unite against the continuing fallout from deadly defoliants of the Vietnam War

  January 3, 2002

• Blind Faith

  Luke and Rachel Watson have lost most of their sight. They eventually will lose all motor skills. Their parents are losing sleep -- do the adults tell their kids they're dying of Batten disease?

  June 14, 2001

• No More Waiting Room

  A mother fights for a therapeutic dive for all who need it

  April 20, 2000

• Drowning on Dry Land

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

  February 3, 2000

• News of the Weird

  April 1, 1999

• Halloween Countdown Part 1: The Seven Most Cliched Costumes

  Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring other people and more about what current pop-culture reference you can cleverly pull off. One year wearing a Cubs hat and headphones was all the rage after fan Steve Bartman snatched a foul ball from outf

  October 1, 2009