Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/23/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bay/news/3673318.html UTMB-Galveston and Texas A&M-Galveston will celebrate Black History Month together with a piano concert featuring Jade Simmons. Simmons will play the music of Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Leon... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/23/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bay/news/3673318.html Galveston Ball High student Myedestinee Wilson was recognized as the outstanding senior at the Galveston County Science and Engineering Fair and awarded a $2,500 scholarship to Texas A&M... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/23/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3679115.html When Bill T. Teague began his career in blood banking as a medical technology student in the late 1950s, the field was just taking off. Teague, who studied and later taught blood banking at... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/23/06 (no direct weblink available) Guest Column by Pat Trevisani: In response to Randall Pettit and other guest columnists that are against a strict smoking ban, I and many of the citizens, employers and visitors to Galveston are happy to see that... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/23/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=29617ca2532b21f6 The debate about public smoking will light up at city hall as council members decide whether to approve a far-reaching smoking ban that will affect hundreds of businesses. The... more »

Medical Journal - Houston (Internet / Print) 02/18/06 http://mjhnews.com/mjh_front_pg.htm Article by Dr. Victor S. Sierpina: An important development in the evolution of Integrative Medicine is the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. The 30 schools in affiliation from the... more »

ESPN Outdoors (Internet / TV) 02/21/06 http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/news/2006/0221/2338647.html 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 the... more »

Victoria Advocate (Internet / Print) 02/18/06 http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/local/local/story/3331743p-3855532c.html Today marks the beginning of National Porphyria Week, a period dedicated to raising awareness about this uncommon but diverse group of disorders, which can cause symptoms ranging... more »

Lexington Herald-Leader (Internet / Print) 02/22/06 http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13930232.htm "If you want to learn how to take these viruses apart and put them back together ... and develop a vaccine against them, it really requires this kind of spacesuit laboratory," said Tom Curtis,... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/society/3671123.html Perhaps it's the "Secrets of Venice" theme or the masked ball aspect, but the annual San Luis Salute, Paige and Tilman Fertitta's nod to Galveston Mardi Gras, sold out weeks before invitations... more »