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The Houston Health Foundation welcomed Optometry Giving Sight today as a new partner in the See to Succeed children’s vision safety net program.
he Houston Health Department is recommending children and adults and people with lung disease such as asthma avoid all outdoor exertion. Everyone else, especially children, should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors.
The Houston Department of Health will offer free child immunizations and highlight many of the services at its health centers as part of National Health Center Week.
Free cervical, breast cancer screenings to benefit uninsured, underinsured women
The Houston Health Department’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and the Houston Food Bank will provide free healthy meals to children during summer appointments at nine WIC centers across the city.
Local public health officials, health care providers, infectious disease experts, community-based organizations and government leaders will convene at the Zika Birth Defects Symposium to help strengthen Houston’s efforts to combat the Zika virus.
City and county health officials are following up on the detection by air sensors of low levels of two bacteria brucella and Fransicella tularensis. The monitor detected brucella on December 10 and 13 and Fransicella tularensis on December 16. The detections occurred on the east side of Houston and Harris County.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will begin providing flu shots to people at high-risk of developing a serious case of influenza or influenza-related complications on Monday, Dec. 20.
Local public health authorities and infectious disease experts from the Texas Medical Center held a press conference today to provide an update on the local status of the national flu vaccine shortage. The vaccine shortage, caused by the failure of the pharmaceutical company Chiron to deliver 48 million doses of adult vaccine, has caused nationwide concern about the upcoming influenza season.
Due to cooler temperatures in the Houston area, the Houston Department of Health and Human Services has announced the excessive heat advisory has ended.