Food and Drug Administration

After Botched Breast Implant, Irving Dr. Hector Oscar Molina Barred From Performing Surgery. He's Opened a Family Practice Instead.

In November 2011, a 28-year-old woman visited the Irving office of Dr. Hector Oscar Molina for an arm lift and breast implants. Molina, ignoring the fact that he had no formal plastic surgery training, that his patient was a dangerously heavy 300-plus pounds, that his office wasn't technically steri ... More >>

Texas Anti-Abortion Group Wants to See a "Fetal Pain" Bill Passed This Session

Seven months ago, the influential anti-abortion advocacy group Americans United for Life released its annual report, Defending Life 2012, featuring an enthusiastic blurb from Governor Rick Perry, who called the report "ammunition in a fight that is far from over." In return, AUL was full of praise f ... More >>

How to Survive a Plague Recounts a Stirring History of ACT UP

David France on the History and Survival of ACT UP

Charles Anthony Jones, Your "Erection Connection," Indicted for Selling Fake Boner Pills Over the Internet

Things were going well for Charles Anthony Jones last Valentine's Day. Business was good, he had $3,000 cash in his front pocket and enough anti-impotence medication in his car to kill a stallion. But that's when things started going down hill. Irving police arrested him later that day and took the ... More >>

At Vspot Vegan Cafe, Making Meatless Work for the Buckle of the Beef Belt

And no, it's not hard to find.

Texas' Cottage Food Law Passed, But That Won't Stop the State from Changing It

During the last state legislative session, the Cottage Food Law was passed, clearing the way for home bakers to sell certain goods from their home. Guidelines were established, including limiting annual gross sales to less than $50,000, requiring in-person transactions and limiting sales to non-pote ... More >>

One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive

One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning after. He and his wife had their "accident" a few days before, and the 72-hour window in which EC is m ... More >>

Limitless: One Pill Makes You Smarter in a One-Note Movie.

Girl Scout Cookies: Leave It to Us to Dig Up
A Murder Angle

​The Girl Scouts' cookie sales season starts this week. And while there aren't any new cookies on the roster this year, the scouts are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Samoas -- a caramel-coconut concoction that debuted in a year the organization might otherwise wish to forget. Girl Scouts ... More >>

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Rick Perry Boldly Stands Against Imaginary Threat Toward Salt Shakers

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our salt!​It looks like salt may be the next weapon government won't be able to pry out of conservatives' cold, dead hands. Tea was the symbolic foodstuff of the just-finished election cycle, but recent comments from Governor Rick Perry sugg ... More >>

Apple Juice Not Just for Kids Anymore, Though It Should Be

​Far be it from me to meddle in other people's hydration techniques, but I was surprised this weekend to come across an overheated valet chugging a gallon of frozen apple juice. I like apples, but I always figured there was an age limit on enjoying apple juice. I'd no sooner drink apple juice ... More >>

Mayor Tom, Caraway and DPD Chief Brown Want Dallas to Ban the Sale of Fake Dope

​Late this evening I was poking around the City Secretary's site to sneak-peek the council's doings upon its return to work Monday. At which point I noticed that when the Public Safety Committee reconvenes at noon, City Attorney Tom Perkins and Dallas Police Deputy Chief Patricia Paulhill will bri ... More >>

To The Full Ex-Stent of the Law

​More than two years ago, Kevin Colquitt filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which he alleges "the makers of stents approved to treat digestive tract cancers had illegally marketed them for years to treat blocked blood vessels in other parts of the body," as The New York Times recaps this m ... More >>

Down On The Grass-Fed Farm: The Beef May Be Better, But It's Still Damn Hard Work

Jayme RutledgeMarguerite Robbins with her cattle.​ Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops wha ... More >>

Eyesight to the Nearly Blind

Megan FeldmanDr. Jeffrey Whitman performs a rare eye surgery on Adam Williamson, paralyzed in a 2006 dirt-bike accident.Not many people relish having to wear contacts or glasses, but for Adam Williamson, poor eyesight was more than a headache. The 25-year-old from Garland was paralyzed in a dirt bik ... More >>

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

Fighting Fire With Fire

Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

Pfizer No Longer Ruling Out Chantix Side Effects: "Depression and Suicidal Behavior"

Chantix By Any Other Name ...

A Month Later, Carter Albrecht's Chantix Use Is Now a National Cautionary Tale

Ringing Up Baby

Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...

BBQ Sauce for the Soul

When he's not catering for the president, barbecue maven Eddie Deen caters to the spirits of the indigent

I Hate It

This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe

Sex Toy Story

You can't buy a vibrator in Burleson, but there are plenty of dildos

R.I.P.ped

Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

Cocktail Hours

The latest AIDS medications give life to the dying--but what kind of life?

Dino-myte

Plus: Soy-lent Green; Player’s Ball

Green Giant

Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

Buzz

Java jive

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

Ten-gallon beret

Charolais is a steak house with a French kiss

Courthouse bully

Legal assistant Jim Carrao works the dark corners of the justice system. He serves papers, does background checks, files annoying cases--and knows just enough law to be dangerous.

Rice brewhaha

The Blue Fish menusinks in a river of sake

Blood sucker

This vampire killer, despite its pedigree, never comes to life

Paper chase

William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.

Hot Product

World-class embezzler Gary Lewellyn rebounds with a fast-selling treatment for A.D.D.

Epidemic of hope

A new family of drugs may offer AIDS patients a new lease on life

Events for the week

At a Snail's Place

Richard Fullington is trying to make a fortune in a slimy business

Neander-Guy

Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too

Aborted cause

Ivan Reitman's Junior ruins many stellar comic opportunities