Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
More adolescents in the U.S. are undergoing weight loss surgery, according to researchers with UTHealth Houston.
UT Physicians, the clinical practice of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has received a prestigious 2022 President’s Volunteer Service Award (bronze level) from the Houston Food Bank.
Nearly $13 million in federal grant funds to study treatments for traumatic brain injury, which kills an average of 190 people and hospitalizes another 600 in the U.S. every day, has been awarded to UTHealth Houston by the Department of Defense’s Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
African Americans with a mutation in the gene TRPM4 are more likely to have increased inflammation in the brain, resulting in poor recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI), compared to others who don’t have the mutation, according to a study by researchers with UTHealth Houston.
