Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/18/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=74f3b3607be0daa8 Today’s Mardi Gras celebration gets off to a running start with the Mardi Gras Beach Run at the Stewart Beach Pavilion. The 5K run/walk starts at 8:30 a.m., followed by the... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/19/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=1b5c596dd19bdbf3 The 5K was won by Alex Hoeg in 17:53 and Lindie Nanninga in 23:06. Nanninga was both the first woman across the finish line and the first masters woman. Nanninga was marking a... more »

BusinessWeek (Internet / Print) 02/21/06 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060221_196821.htm Many viruses have figured out ways to elude the body's protective system. One of the cleverest is the hepatitis-C virus. In scores of millions of infected people, the bug does its... more »

Columbia Spectator (Internet / Print) 02/21/06 http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/21/43fabad5e5eab The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave Boston University the final go-ahead last Thursday to build a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, a high-security facility that... more »

Dallas Morning News (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-jailfeds_20met.ART0.North.Edition2.9125ccf.html Investigators from the U.S. Justice Department will descend on the Dallas County jail today to examine health care problems and... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?WCD=82032 Dr. James C. Thompson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award of the Society of University Surgeons during the group’s annual Academic Surgery meeting. Thompson, Ashbel Smith... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3671358.html Kyriakos Markides coined the phrase in his research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. His 1986 study was the first to underscore how Hispanics, despite their socioeconomic... more »

CNN Health (Internet / TV) 02/20/06 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/19/birdflu.animals.ap/ One explanation may be the recent and wide-scale changes in how people interact with the environment in a more densely populated world that is growing warmer and in which travel is faster and... more »

USA Today (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-19-animal-diseases_x.htm Humans risk being overrun by diseases from the animal world, according to researchers who have documented 38 illnesses that have made that jump over the past 25 years. That's not good news for... more »

The Graphic (Internet / Print) 02/17/06 http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-02-16-tanorexia.htm Doctors are beginning to see tanning in a different light other than a cosmetic choice some people make. A 2005 study by Dr. Robert Wagner, a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch... more »