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Beginning Monday, Nov. 12, Houston Department of Health and Human Services inspectors will inspect retail food businesses, including mobile food units, using ordinances recently approved by City Council.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will sponsor walk-in registrations for its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program at the Alief Community Center, 11903 Bellaire, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 31 and April 14 and 28.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) has moved its Southwest WIC Clinic to the Southwest Multi-Service Center, 6400 High Star.
Health inspections reports for Houston food establishments – ranging from swanky restaurants to mom-and-pop mobile food units and everything in between such as nursing homes, grocery stores and school cafeterias – are now online.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) has detected an upsurge this month in the number of cases of listeriosis, a serious illness that can result in miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery and babies born with the life-threatening infection.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services recommends that children and pregnant women stay away from their homes during flood repairs if they live in older houses containing lead-based paint.
Every year, in Houston, salmonella cases increase in June.
Many Houston children welcome summer vacations by heading off to the closest swimming pool. The Houston Department of Health and Human Services reminds parents that constant supervision is the most important key to preventing childhood drownings and other swimming pool injuries.
Parents with children entering school for the first time this fall are strongly encouraged to have their children immunized by the family’s private physicians as soon as possible.
Approximately four percent of children screened in Houston for lead poisoning have blood lead levels capable of causing harmful effects, according to the latest data compiled by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS).