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May 21, 2012
Have Babies and Young Children, Dallas? You Might Want to Get Vaccinated Against Whooping Cough
Cases of pertussis, widely known as whooping cough, are on a "modest" uptick in Dallas County, county health officials say. So far this year, the number of cases is higher than in 2010 and 2011. And with the death of one infant this year, health officials say it's "very important for all adults who ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
When It Comes to Vaginal Probin', Texas's GOP Men Got the Short Shrift
If I were a male cowboy-boot-wearing Republican in Texas, I might feel pretty chapped right now by all the attention paid over the last week to the Virginia ultrasound bill. Talk about some limp legislation. Yesterday those wimps in Virginia voted up a pared-down version that will allow women under ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Disabled Girl's Treatment Coverage Depends on Definition of "Hippotherapy"
Mark Samuels, a captain in the Navy, and Jennifer, his wife, never imagined their first time in court would be fighting for healthcare benefits for their daughter Kaitlyn. The 15-year-old was born with an uncommon brain condition similar to cerebral palsy. She cannot communicate verbally and functio ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Film Critical of Komen, Pink Ribbons, Inc., Opens in Canada Today. No U.S. Date Set Yet.
Amidst all the ruckus, resignations and double-talking over Susan G. Komen for the Cure's politically charged move to pull its breast-cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, you should also be aware: Dallas-based Komen's actually the subject of a documentary that opens in Canada today t ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood
Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after "anti-women's health groups have repeate ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Center For Reproductive Rights Wants All Fifth Circuit Judges To Hear Sonogram Law Case
Rick Perry, signing the sonogram legislationThe saga of Texas's brand-new, Rick-Perry approved sonogram law continues. First, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Sam Sparks and allowed the law to go into effect. (That law, just to refresh, ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Judge OKs Texas's Sonogram Law, Making Governor Rick Perry Very, Very Happy
Texas's dandy new "sonogram law" -- which requires abortion-seeking women to look at a sonogram, hear a description of it from her doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat -- is legal, a federal court ruled today. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a temporary injunction, issued by Judge ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Beating Up Babes in Toyland
Perry and Tea Party make a blue Christmas for needy kids.
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November 7, 2011
Rick Perry, Stem Cell Therapy and the Battle Between Medical Freedom and Opportunism
The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one's own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated from human embryos. We don't blame 'em. This issue is thornier than a Texas mesquite thicket, ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Obama's War on Weed
In a strange about-face, the President tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
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October 6, 2011
Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle
Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.
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September 19, 2011
Texas Is the "Big Fish," and the Anti-Abortion Movement Has Lots of Bait in the Water
Photo by Holly MorganNancy Northup, President, Center For Reproductive RightsThe First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that recently won a prelim ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Center for Reproductive Rights Has New Site For Lone Star Ladies and Other In Utero News
Starting September 1, if you're a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor's office. You're going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you "in detail," and possibly be asked to listen to a fetal heart monitor (although you ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Hamilton and Cruz in Frisco Tonight? Might Be a Good Time To Take in a RoughRiders Game.
John Blake just sent word: Josh Hamilton will return to the world of the baseball living tonight in Frisco, when he begins a rehab stint with the RoughRiders as Steve Buechele's second-place squad takes on the Midland Rockhounds. Hamilton, benched with a non-displaced hairline fracture of his rig ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Ron Springs: From Triumph to Tragedy
RIP, Ron SpringsRon Springs was pronounced dead yesterday. After dying on Oct. 12, 2007. I wrote about Springs' sad plight in a March 2010 Observer cover story. But you already knew his tale. Former Cowboys' running back who became a national poster boy -- along with Everson Walls -- for ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
West Dallas Lead Pollution Victims Still Seeking Justice All These Years Later
The old RSR Corporation Lead Smelter, which contaminated some 14 surrounding milesLate last month, West Dallas activist Otis Fagan turned up at City Hall backed by 20 or so other members of a group he calls the Clean Association for Environmental Justice, asking the city council to intervene on t ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
The Battle Between Parkland and Dallas News Rages On In Missive From Hospital CEO
Ron AndersonLast week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred c ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
The DARPA Initiative: SMU, DOD Partner Again, This Time on Prosthetics That Feel
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
You Said It: Toll Roads Really Taking a Toll
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>
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March 4, 2010
The Picture's Kicking
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>
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March 4, 2010
Former Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ron Springs' Tale of Triumph Takes a Sad Detour Through Stagnation and Litigation
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>
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November 19, 2008
UTSW and SMU Team Up to Gather Evidence of Gulf War Syndrome
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>
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November 11, 2008
Merle Haggard Back Home After Lung Surgery
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>
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September 4, 2008
Turns Out, the Failed Superconducting Super Collider Was Kinda Super
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>
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June 18, 2008
Summer = Bummer
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>
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May 23, 2008
Rangers' Announcer Tom Grieve to Undergo Prostate Surgery
Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>
News
April 10, 2008
Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch
Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.
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March 13, 2008
Three-Day Drink-On
Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.
Blogs
January 8, 2008
You Say Can You C-Section?
Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.
Blogs
October 11, 2007
Meet the Most Famous Rugby Player Ever to Emerge from Brookhaven College
Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.
News
September 20, 2007
Teenage and Transgendered
Liz and Amber were just friends until Liz became Jay
Blogs
June 14, 2007
Why I Love Mark Cuban
Liz and Amber were just friends until Liz became Jay
News
March 1, 2007
Shoot Up Your Kid
Liz and Amber were just friends until Liz became Jay
News
January 18, 2007
�Ask a Mexican!
Uncomplementary colors
News
December 21, 2006
Paging McDreamy
Grey's Anatomy lies: Girl goes to the hospital, and all she gets is medical care
Blogs
September 27, 2006
Re: T.O., O.D.
Grey's Anatomy lies: Girl goes to the hospital, and all she gets is medical care
Blogs
June 28, 2006
Culbreath in "Grave Condition"
Grey's Anatomy lies: Girl goes to the hospital, and all she gets is medical care
Blogs
April 25, 2006
Yuck This
Grey's Anatomy lies: Girl goes to the hospital, and all she gets is medical care
News
November 20, 2003
Monica at 10
A decade ago, Eduardo Greene abandoned his wife, his home and a successful restaurant, expecting a nightmare in pursuit of a dream
Best of Dallas
September 25, 2003
Best Blog
D magazine's FrontBurner
News
February 14, 2002
The Next Breast Thing
Build a better fake boob, and women will beat a path to your door, along with the occasional lawsuit
Calendar
January 31, 2002
Gang of Four
SamulNori brings in the noise, brings in the folk
Best of Dallas
September 20, 2001
Best Churrascaria
Boi Na Braza
Calendar
April 19, 2001
There's a "Can" in Cancer
Some of us might call it bad luck; he thinks of it as "25 minutes of new material"
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best Sports Talk Show
The Hardline/Dunham and Miller
News
June 22, 2000
From Russia, with bugs
Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus
News
March 30, 2000
With friends like that...
Protesters dog UT Southwestern over canine vivisection
News
June 3, 1999
Unacceptable Risk
Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?
News
November 12, 1998
Letters
Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?
News
November 5, 1998
Prime cut
Religious circumciser Rabbi Michael Rovinsky is skilled, funny, and popular among both his Jewish and gentile clients. But is this mohel a brazen self-promoter who is maiming our children by doing God's work?
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