University of Texas Medical Branch

Oops: UTMB Misplaces a Vial of Deadly Virus

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is proud to be the home of many highly infectious, very deadly viruses and other potential weapons of biological mass destruction. And that's just in the break-room fridge!!! (Ha! Kidding.) Part of the job of keeping such things around the premis ... More >>

UTMB Pays Fine in Animal Welfare Act Allegations

Three University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston employees have been fired, and the university has agreed to pay $9,143 relating to allegations of Animal Welfare Act violations. Under the settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the university did not admit or deny any wrong ... More >>

Orange Show Eyeopener Tour: Art and Science

Mardi Gras! Galveston Returns This Weekend

​Bead throwing, laser light shows, live music and massive parades. The second weekend of Mardi Gras! Galveston will kick off this Friday, February 17, with more entertainment than ever before. Not only is it the largest celebration of its kind in Texas, but it is also the third-largest in the nati ... More >>

Down the Hatch

The Texas Attorney General's Office says a drugmaker lied in order to push an antipsychotic on foster children. So why are kids as young as three still taking the drug?

Haunted Harbor Tour

Hilton Kelley: Port Arthur Oil Refinery Activist Wins Huge Green Prize

Photos: Goldman Environmental PrizeHilton Kelley, winner of "the green Nobel"​Ten years ago, by anyone's standard, Hilton Kelley was living the dream. Then just turning 40, he was in sunny California, having escaped his malodorous hometown of Port Arthur via the United States Navy. After his ... More >>

Facebook v. Leaky Boob

Houston mom in a FB face-off.

Obliviously Plump

Study reveals overweight women blissfully unaware

Pleasantly Plump: One-Third of Overweight Women in Denial

Oh, the ironyGood news for chubby-chasers in Texas: a new study out of the University of Texas Medical Branch claims that "37 percent of overweight women and 10.5 percent of obese women were of the notion that their weight was normal or too low."Published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, ... More >>

Galveston Island Shrimp Festival

Galveston hosts its first annual festival of all things shrimp

Galveston Woman Loses Lower Lip In Drunken Seawall Donnybrook; Claims Clubgoers Ignored Her Distress

Courtesy Galveston County SOcutline​Loretta Pearl Ramos, 32, and her beau Carlos Alberto Hernandez-Munoz, 27, were tearing it up yesterday on the Seawall in Galveston when Hernandez-Munoz decided he wanted to kick things up a notch or two.Ramos later told police that Hernandez-Munoz was "extremely ... More >>

How To Help Your Pudgy Six-Month-Old Kid Drop Those Pounds

​It's never too early to give your children body-image issues. Doctors at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have just published a study showing how they detected obesity in 6-month-olds."Children who were obese at age 24 months were highly likely to have been obese at age 6 month ... More >>

Texas Traveler: Houston Haunts

Photos by Brittanie SheyEntrance to the Donnellan vault below the Franklin Street Bridge​Texas Traveler has spent the better part of the month checking out some of the creepiest, oldest, most interesting parts of Houston and it's neighboring cities, and to wrap up the month we have a few more ... More >>

Life, Post-Ike

One year later, Galveston residents like Marie Creasy have dug in for the long haul

Laid Off UTMB-Galveston Faculty Not Having A Lot Of Luck With Appeals

The Scientist, a magazine that takes a skeptical look at goings-on in the medical industry, has a new report out on UTMB-Galveston's treatment of faculty in the wake of Hurricane Ike.Color them unimpressed. (Free registration may be required.)Or, maybe impressed -- just not in a good way. If you're ... More >>

Taking Stock of Galveston's Restaurants

Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Casey's giant fiberglass shrimp looks out from the restaurant onto the Gulf of Mexico.Driving along Broadway on your way into the heart of Galveston, it would appear that the island has finally sprung back to life five months after Hurricane Ike passed direc ... More >>

Hurricane Ike's Wake

Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath

Bad Faith and Texas Mutual Insurance

Houston attorney Mike Doyle and TMI are locked in a battle over truth, lies and an employee's right to workers' comp benefits.

Kentucky Newspaper Says R.I.P, Galveston

TDCJ Death Sparks A Lawsuit

Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

Years after Sybil, the debate continues

Buck for Their Bang

A Moon Swoon

One Houston preacher gave up the cross for the cult

Care and Feeding

Whole Foods wants lobsters to live large before dying

Jailhouse Crock

UTMB's controversial proposed deal with the city dies

The Fix Is In

UTMB is under fire in Dallas for its jail health care. So why is Houston ready to install it here?

Uncivil Action

No one's responsible for a body-parts debacle

Beer Brawl

Starbucks tries to step on the start-up of Starbock beer

Playing by the Rules

A Houston softball team accuses Atlanta of being too straight

Deal of a Lifetime

Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?

Over and Out

Baylor balks at budget questions and boots a new hire

Overdose

Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

Gangstas in Paradise

Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

Mixing It Up

She just wanted her comfortable suburban life. But when a concrete company intruded on her paradise, the homemaker turned warrior.

Rough Cut

A film-in-progress dissects the relationship between med students and their cadavers

No More Waiting Room

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

The Man Who Knew Too Soon?

Eight years ago Tom Curtis reported that AIDS could have been spread by an experimental polio vaccine grown on monkey kidneys. Scientists sniffed. Journalists scoffed. The story died. Now, a new book says the theory wasn't so stupid after all.

Raw Deal

Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

Trouble in Mind

Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

Segovian Six-Stringer

Magic Flutes

Dutch group makes music the old-fashioned way

The Further Adventures of King Con

Yet again, Steven Russell bluffed his way out of prison. And yet again, he got caught.

Letters

Following the Money

Critical Diagnosis

If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates

Lost in the Cause

In the early 1960s, Eldrewey Stearns was a powerful force for integration in a segregated society. Then he forgot his way, and history forgot him. Until, that is, he met writer Thomas R. Cole.

Sex and Death on the Restroom Wall

A mother's complaint brings the vice squad to a Montrose coffeehouse -- and a cover-up of the offending artwork

Dying on the Cheap