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We strongly take issue with UPRR that the letter from the Texas Department of Health found no cancer or other health concerns.
City of Houston libraries will serve as cooling centers Saturday, August 19, and two multi-service centers and a community center on Sunday, August 20, for Houstonians needing to take refuge from the heat.
The City of Houston will extend its Public Health Heat Emergency Plan through Sunday, August 6, and will open some facilities to serve as cooling centers to provide a resource for people to take refuge from extreme heat.
Houstonians needing to take refuge from the heat over the weekend due to lack of air conditioning can visit City of Houston libraries on Saturday and two multi-service centers or a community center on Sunday.
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 (HDHHS) announces walk-in registrations at various WIC locations from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. on selected Saturdays during October, November and December 2000 for the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC).
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will open a new Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) service site Sept. 18 in the Gulfgate area, accommoda-ting residents now traveling outside their community for nutritional assistance and health care referrals.
"Be Smart. Keep Foods Apart. Don’t Cross-Contaminate," is the theme for National Food Safety Education Month, celebrated in September and observed locally by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS).
Volunteer drivers are needed to help deliver hot nutritious meals to home-bound elderly citizens served by a network of Meals on Wheels providers sponsored by the Houston/Harris County Area Agency on Aging.