Medicine

Buzz: Sex Ed in Texas Gets an "F"

Sex "Education" Has Failed Texas Students, Says Texas State University Study

Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network ... More >>

Before Council Votes to Ban Smoking, a Lot of Smoke is Blown at City Hall

After nearly three hours of discussion, the city council wrapped up yesterday's briefing on the proposed strengthened smoking ordinance seemingly prepared to vote on the item at next week's agenda meeting. Council members appear poised to approve a ban on smoking in bars, pool halls and within 15 fe ... More >>

Council Committee Moves Toward Smoking Smackdown. Could Be Worse.

After nearly three hours of discussion, the city council wrapped up yesterday's briefing on the proposed strengthened smoking ordinance seemingly prepared to vote on the item at next week's agenda meeting. Council members appear poised to approve a ban on smoking in bars, pool halls and within 15 fe ... More >>

Tony Romo and His Pops Are Out to Tackle Prostate Cancer

After nearly three hours of discussion, the city council wrapped up yesterday's briefing on the proposed strengthened smoking ordinance seemingly prepared to vote on the item at next week's agenda meeting. Council members appear poised to approve a ban on smoking in bars, pool halls and within 15 fe ... More >>

Bizarro World

Lesbian bull-riders, menopausal mamas and a not-so-sexy Stanley Kowalski—ah, the stuff of theater

Teaching Teens How to Parent and Stop Having Children

Battling the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Texas counselors have their work cut out

You Say Can You C-Section?

Battling the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Texas counselors have their work cut out

In the Line of Fire

Battling the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Texas counselors have their work cut out

Stemming the Tide

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

A New Report Says That Texas' Ignoring Stem Cell Research is Just Bad Business

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

Shoot Up Your Kid

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

How Brad Pitt Gets His Ideas

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

People, People Who Read People

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

Poor People Make Excellent Guinea Pigs

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

Not Sweet News

Texas' stance on stem cell research could have economic effects

Out of Focus

A shift in AIDS funding from services to drugs threatens poor patients

Health Class

Central Dallas Ministries documents diabetes among the undocumented

Life, Death and Money

Will Texas pony up bucks to lead in stem cell research? Pro-lifers hope not.

The Missing People's Agenda

Plus: The Turkey Test; New Sheriff in Town

Reach Out

AIDS Outreach Center has family fun and a family fund-raiser

Run for Their Lives

Everyone deserves a second chance

To Buy Good Looks

Everyone deserves a second chance

Cocktail Hours

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

Get a Life

Fight AIDS one step at a time

Getting the Bird

West Nile keeps animal control officers hopping to collect dead birds

Consider the Source

Planned Parenthood refuses to give up the dole without a fight

Just Kidding

Plus: Checkup; Ch-ch-changes

No Smoking Gun

The new smoking ban will work--if no one lights up

Different Seasons

Peggy Shaw hit middle age and became a Menopausal Gentleman

Where There's Smoke

Dallas considers strengthening the smoking ordinance...again

Déjà Vu

Advocates say University Park paramedics shunned a man with AIDS--at an AIDS awareness rally

Living La Vida SIDA

After his younger brother died of AIDS, Joseluis Partida dedicated his life to warning people about the disease. But the politics of being gay and Hispanic made it tougher than he ever imagined.

Slaughterhouse Jive

Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

Best bell pepper

Raneri's

Out Here

Kid Choas

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

No idle threat

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

Smoke gets in his eyes

A Dallas deputy sheriff is transferred because of his allergies

Desperate Measures

Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

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?

Disease of the week

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?

Hash Over

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?

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Dr. Bombastic

Dallas oncologist Dennis Birenbaum claims he's been given a bad rap by the state and media. Now he's going to make them pay.

Stormy seas

The Yellow Boat sails a sweet, troubled journey

Epidemic of hope

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

From Lee Harvey Oswald to Ashley Estell, Dallas pathologist Linda Norton serves as Doctor to the Dead

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

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

Presumed horizontal

Thief uses bed rest study to duck trial