The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is advising health care providers of emerging xylazine-laced drug overdoses in the United States, including Texas. Xylazine is being used to adulterate or “cut” recreational drugs, common opioids...

The Texas Department of State Health Services is notifying the public of a missing radiographic camera, an industrial device that contains radioactive material. The material is sealed within multiple layers of protection, and the risk of exposure is...

More than 1,400 scholarships worth more than $6 million have been awarded since October 2022 through a Texas Department of State Health Services program to fund emergency medical services education and grow the state’s EMS workforce, particularly in...

As of January 1, 2023, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) uses a 3.5 ug/dL blood lead reference value (BLRV) to identify children who should receive medical and public health follow-up. DSHS encourages all health care providers to...

With this week’s winter storm causing power outages in Texas, the Texas Department of State Health Services is urging people to use extreme caution with electric generators and heat sources that produce dangerous carbon monoxide.

The Texas Department of State Health Services renews its fight next week against domestic dog/coyote and Texas gray fox rabies virus variants with the launch of the 29^th Oral Rabies Vaccination Program vaccine bait airdrop. Flights begin Tuesday, Jan...

DSHS is reopening the TX 1 shellfish area to harvesting. Extensive bacteriological water sampling in the area after this month’s oyster recall shows that water quality meets National Shellfish Sanitation Program guidelines. Shoreline surveys found no...

The Texas Department of State Health Services has ordered a recall of all oysters harvested in the TX 1 area of southeastern Galveston Bay after reports of a few dozen cases of gastrointestinal illness among people who ate oysters from those waters...

The Texas Department of State Health Services EMS-Trauma Systems Program presented its annual emergency medical services awards on Nov. 22, 2022 at the Texas EMS Conference in Austin. Each of the award categories honors a person or organization that...

The Texas Department of State Health Services tracks COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalizations, vaccine allocations and uptake, and more. Effective Dec. 1, 2022, the Texas COVID-19 dashboard will be updated weekly on Wednesdays. In the event of a...