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Between 2020 and 2021, the number of weight loss surgeries among youth increased by nearly 20%. between 2020 and 2021, the number of weight loss surgeries among youth increased by nearly 20%. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

New research shows an uptick in weight loss surgery among youth in US

More adolescents in the U.S. are undergoing weight loss surgery, according to researchers with UTHealth Houston.

Kim Kham and Melissa McDonald at the recognition ceremony at the Houston Food Bank on May 30, 2023. (Photo provided by UT Physicians Marketing and Communications team)

UT Physicians honored by Houston Food Bank with President’s Volunteer Service Award

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.

UTHealth Houston researcher Charles S. Cox Jr. is studying new ways to treat traumatic brain injury. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

UTHealth Houston awarded nearly $13M in grants to study treatments for traumatic brain injury

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).

Joseph Krocker, MD, former postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Surgery with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and first author of the study. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

Gene mutation linked to poorer TBI recovery outcomes in African Americans, according to study

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.






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