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The Houston Health Department WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program highlights the overwhelming benefits of breastfeeding this August, National Breastfeeding Awareness Month.
Women and children will have an added value to their Women, Infants and Children (WIC) benefits with another temporary extension of fruits and vegetables.
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.