Welcome to the South Texas Poison Center at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.
The South Texas Poison Center would like to invite you to support our efforts on
poison safety during poison prevention week, March 18-24, 2012. The third week in
March each year is National Poison Prevention Week, which is nationally designated
to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. We invite you to
become actively involved in helping ensure the safety of children and adults in your
home and community. Please review this website to see how you can help our efforts
by learning about poisonings and how to prevent them. You can also
visit our Facebook page
to read about up to date information on poisonings.
This year, we sent
our top twenty-six posters, including the top 4 winners that participated in
our 2011 Regional Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest, to participate in the
2011 National Poster Contest in Washington, D.C. Out of all those posters, we had a
winner!
Congratulations to Kayla Hinojosa, 2nd grader at Melissa D. Betts
Elementary School in Edinburg!
Kayla won 3rd Place in the younger division of the
2011 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest!
Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Free and confidential services - 1-800-222-1222.
If you think someone has been poisoned, call the Texas Poison Center
Network at 1-800-222-1222 right away. Do not wait for the victim to look
or feel sick. Do not try to treat the person yourself.
The South Texas Poison Center complies with the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990. Individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing
may access the service by calling the following number for TTY:
1-800-222-1222.
Mercury poisonings linked to cosmetic cream from Mexico:
The South Texas Poison Center is warning against use of a cosmetic cream from
Mexico that is linked to an outbreak of inorganic mercury exposures and
poisonings, mostly in towns along the Texas-Mexico border.
Miguel Fernández, MD, Director of the South Texas
Poison Center, was interviewed on local national affiliates KENS-5 and KSAT-12 to discuss poisoning cases resulting
from use of the cosmetic cream.
Read HSC News article |
View KENS-5 interview (9-6-11)
Interviewed on KSAT-12 by Brian Mylar, Miguel Fernández, MD, Director of the South Texas
Poison Center, warns of new form of substance abuse:
People are using bath salts to get high — this new form of getting high hasn't
reached San Antonio yet, but is probably on the way. Some bath salts contain
Mephedrone which when ingested nasally or orally causes an elevated mood similar
to the effects of cocaine or methamphetamine.
View KSAT-12 News story, video
More about Dr. Fernández | (12-21-10)
Congratulations to Miguel Fernández, MD, Director of the South Texas
Poison Center, on his appointment to the National Toxicology Program Board
of Scientific Counselors:
The National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors was established
in 1978 by the Department of Health and Human Services as a cooperative effort
to monitor, control, and coordinate toxicology testing and to provide
information about potentially toxic chemicals to the public and health,
regulatory, medical and research agencies. Appointed by Kathleen Sebelius, US Secretary
of Health and Human Services, Dr. Fernández's term on the board
will run through June 2013.
Read HSC News story |
National Toxicology Program |
More about Dr. Fernández
(12-8-10; updated 1-13-11)
December 2010 – Congratulations to our Surgery faculty chosen as San Antonio's
'Best Doctors' published in the January 2011 issue of San Antonio Magazine:
Emergency Medicine:
Miguel Fernández, MD. (12-7-10)
South Texas Poison Center recognized by the American Association of Poison Control
Centers Fatality Review Team:
Our team was recognized at the 2010 North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology Meeting
held in Denver, Colorado, for being the first poison center in the country to complete all of
their fatality case abstracts. The South Texas Poison Center fatality abstract review
team includes
Douglas Cobb, RPh;
Miguel C. Fernandez, MD;
George Layton, MD;
Cynthia Abbott-Teter, PharmD; and
C. Lizette Villarreal, MA.
More about the American
Association of Poison Control Centers
(10-27-10)
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