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A Rice University/City of Houston study being published in the August edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds greater risk of cardiac arrest and lower cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a corridor of Houston that runs right down the middle of the city.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will receive today a national award for its community health assessments of disadvantaged Houston neighborhoods.
People diagnosed or at risk for diabetes can enroll in free fitness, nutrition and cooking classes sponsored in January and February by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS).
A large red poinsettia AIDS ribbon, brief speeches by four people living with HIV or AIDS and a candlelight vigil will highlight a program sponsored by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) to observe World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
City and county health officials are following up on the detection by air sensors of low levels of parts of the bacterium that causes tularemia, a treatable illness occasionally found in humans but more common in rabbits and rodents.
The Latino HIV Task Force, a group of Houston health agencies, will offer free HIV testing October 15 as part of the first National Latino AIDS Awareness Day.
The City of Houston's Heat Emergency Plan will go in effect starting Tuesday, August 5. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory expected to remain in effect for southeast Texas the rest of the week. A heat advisory is issued when the heat index, a computation of the air temperature and humidity, reaches 108 degrees for two consecutive days.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services will provide vaccinations to children heading off to school at four local shopping malls weekdays in August from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The season’s first cases of arboviral infection were reported in two people by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) today.