Editor’s note: This story was revised shortly after publication to include comments from an official of Vitamin Cottage Natural Foods, the firm that sold the peanut butter in which Salmonella was found.
Feb 17, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offered additional evidence today that the Peanut Corp of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Ga., may not be the only PCA facility that has contributed to the nationwide
outbreak Read the rest of this entry »

said it has completed the construction of a rehabilitation hospital in Texas.
The Birmingham-based general contractor recently completed the 64,000-square-foot Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital of North Houston, said a news release.
The three-story building includes 40 private rehabilitation rooms and 20 private skilled nursing rooms to serve patients in North Harris and Montgomery counties in Texas.
M.J. Harris said it encountered several obstacles Read the rest of this entry »

10:17 PM CST on Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Texas Medical Association said Wednesday that a survey of doctors found that health insurers and government bureaucracy are hurting their ability to care for patients.
The survey of 850 Texas doctors underscores core problems with the health care system: Doctors are struggling to get paid and insurers are wrestling to keep costs under control.
The area’s largest insurers Read the rest of this entry »

12:43 AM CST on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A strain of salmonella that was detected at a Georgia peanut plant and caused hundreds of illnesses nationwide also has been confirmed in peanuts processed at a West Texas plant owned by the same company, Texas health officials announced Tuesday.
The Plainview plant was supplying peanut ingredients for 150 to 200 food manufacturers around the country. Several manufacturers Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 2:05 PM
His day job is running into burning buildings, putting out blazes and saving lives. He saves lives on the side, too, but in a much more subtle way: firefighter Rip Esselstyn has written a bestselling new diet book that shows readers how to lower their cholesterol – and thus their risk of heart attack and stroke.
The 46-year-old former professional triathlete and University of Texas swim team member was Read the rest of this entry »

said it has topped off a more than $10 million hospital expansion it is building in Texas.
The Birmingham-based company is serving as the general contractor for the expansion of Lake Granbury Medical Center in Granbury, Texas.
The expansion includes 10,000 square feet of additional surgical support areas, a redesign of a parking lot, a renovated emergency room registration area and a new front entrance used for visitor drop off.
The company Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible
contamination, a development that threatens to widen one of the largest food recalls ever and raises more questions about why the government allowed the plant to operate.
The company’s plant in Blakely, Ga., was identified a month ago as the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible
contamination, a development that threatens to widen one of the largest food recalls ever and raises more questions about why the government allowed the plant to operate.
The company’s plant in Blakely, Ga., was identified a month ago as the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, February 03, 2009
WASHINGTON —  The Associated Press has learned a processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for years.
Texas health records show the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview had never been inspected until after the company recently fell under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
FDA inspectors went Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS
— A health care company hired to manage a program for elderly Texans as part of a broad privatization plan was fined more than $1 million by the state in the past year over mounting complaints that included delayed or denied medical care.
Evercare of Texas, a unit of Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group, has drawn the ire of some powerful Austin lawmakers over its management of preventative and long-term care for the state’s most Read the rest of this entry »