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Texas Department of State Health Services

  • Music

    May 10, 2012

    Michael "5000" Watts and Trillstep

    The Swishahouse don has a new creation.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Galveston's Red Tide Appears to Have Dissipated, Oysters Recovering

    Photo by mintprofusionOysters affected by red tide are toxic to humans.​On January 27, two small portions of Texas Gulf waters were conditionally opened to shellfish harvesting after a red tide epidemic forced the indefinite closure of oyster season in October. San Antonio and Espiritu Santo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    FBISD Says Don't Worry, We Took Care of That Austin High Mold

    A spritz here, a spritz there.​One of the lesser joys of getting ready for a new school year comes when teachers return to the classroom and flip on a switch. At Austin High School in the Fort Bend ISD, last week a few teachers were greeted with the unwelcome discovery of what one person des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    On 4/20, Texas Bans K2

    Kiss it goodbye​Harshing the buzz of untold headshop fans, the state of Texas today officially announced its ban on synthetic marijuana product K2. Important news: The ban takes effect Friday. Stock up now, pseudo-stoners!! The Texas Department of State Health Services made the announcement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Parents Baffled By Outbreak of Birth Defects in Aggieland

    Tied to plant fire? State will investigate.​When five families in Bryan-College Station conceived children with an uncommon -- and usually fatal -- birth defect, they began searching for answers. And now, state health investigators and Texas A&M researchers are also part of that search. The ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 17, 2011

    Come and Bake It

    Local movement fights for cottage food bill.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Cal-Maine Egg Farm: Don't Look At This Video While Eating Breakfast

    You don't wanna know​If it's been too long since your last undercover-video-of-ghastly-animal-abuse fix, then check out the footage cited in this lawsuit concerning the Cal-Maine egg farm in Travis County. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is suing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2010

    Steamrolled

    Mom-and-pop industrial plants not as wholesome as they seem.

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2010

    Fishing By A Superfund Site Will Get You Noticed

    Somebody's watching you, and it's not just the four-eyed fish​Were you fishing along the San Jacinto Battleground of Lynchburg Ferry this weekend? Did you get the feeling you were being watched?You probably dismissed it as "Well, yeah, if I'm enough of an idiot to fish in these polluted waters, I ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 10, 2010

    Designer Meats

    In Houston, more and more chefs are curing their own pig products

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Obama's Screwing Texas Out Of Swine Flu Vaccine!!!! Or Maybe Not

    ​Is Obama trying to kill Texans as revenge for not voting for him?Quite possibly, if you believe a list of swine-flu vaccine information getting e-mailed around. (And yeah, we're calling it swine flu, you H1N1 snobs.)What's being e-mailed is a list of vaccine doses shipped, broken down by state. C ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    Cancer Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski Sees Himself as a Crusading Researcher, Not a Quack

    He's treated thousands of people from all over the world, so why can't he get FDA approval?

  • News

    December 18, 2008
  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Today: Swishahouse Hip Hop Health & Wellness Workshop

    It's World AIDS Day, and although you don't hear near as much about it these days, the disease is still very much with us. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, in 2006 - the most recent year for which statistics are available - Harris County had the state's most ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Sued By AG, Texas Company Takes Its Game Elsewhere

    It's World AIDS Day, and although you don't hear near as much about it these days, the disease is still very much with us. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, in 2006 - the most recent year for which statistics are available - Harris County had the state's most ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    The Immigration Cops Hate Midwives

    It's World AIDS Day, and although you don't hear near as much about it these days, the disease is still very much with us. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, in 2006 - the most recent year for which statistics are available - Harris County had the state's most ne ... More >>

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

    Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    Death at West Oaks Hospital

    Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Naked Men: The ManKind Project and Michael Scinto

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2007

    Cocaine Redux

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Mail Call

    Woodwind Lakes Edition

  • News

    August 31, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Woodwind Lakes Edition

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    Parish Predators

    Despite the bishop’s remarks to the contrary, the Galveston-Houston Roman Catholic Archdiocese had child molesters and let them go. But don’t blame just the Church.

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Without a Trace

    Professional death cleaners are hired to disinfect, deodorize and make it seem like it never happened

  • News

    January 5, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Professional death cleaners are hired to disinfect, deodorize and make it seem like it never happened

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Against All Odds

    A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    Doctor Nice

    Steven Hotze uses a warm, easygoing manner to peddle natural hormones to women, at thousands of dollars a pop. So who cares about credentials or documented results?

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