Blood pressure medicine may lower frailty for older adults
May 18, 2022
A commonly used blood pressure medication may help improve measures of frailty in prefrail older adults, according to a new study by researchers with UTHealth Houston.
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Family raises money for Papanna’s lab after he saves their daughter’s life
May 9, 2022
Anne Briggs always longed to be a mom.
But after having no menstrual cycle for over a decade, she knew when she married her husband Mark in 2020 that conceiving a child naturally would be unlikely.
Hearing aids allow brother and sister to thrive
April 21, 2022
Elizabeth and Elliott Maddox love watching cartoons, eating snacks, and playtime, just like most other young children. However, they each have one extra step in the morning — putting in their hearing aids.
Researchers focus on early childhood educators’ social and emotional well-being with $2.1 million grant
April 13, 2022
A five-year, $2.1 million grant will allow researchers at UTHealth Houston to test the impact of the Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) program on the social and emotional well-being of early childhood educators in Head Start programs across three major cities in Texas.
Breast cancer survivor with epilepsy-inducing genetic abnormality seizure-free after two laser ablation surgeries
March 25, 2022
When Tiffeny Morrow was 40 years old, she started having strange episodes: She would feel heat in the pit of her stomach, and then her body would freeze into one position for a few moments, as she shook with fear.
UTHealth Houston researchers awarded over $6 million in CPRIT grants
March 23, 2022
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded over $6 million to researchers with UTHealth Houston to aid in cancer prevention research. These awards will expand liver cancer prevention to persons experiencing homelessness, facilitate communication about the HPV vaccine, and find therapeutics that can help destroy gastrointestinal cancer cells.
Active mom back to normal after scare with rare kidney disease
March 22, 2022
Elizabeth Dravis was a medical field professional, a PhD student at UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston, an avid runner, and mother of two when she started to suffer from extreme fatigue at the beginning of the year. Dravis thought she just needed to rest after a busy holiday season until her symptoms progressively worsened and she passed out.
Experts outline five steps for clinicians to assess their electronic health records
March 21, 2022
Researchers with UTHealth Houston outline five steps for clinicians to assess their electronic health records (EHR) using the SAFER guidelines.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA.
Natural COVID-19 antibodies lasts seven months for children, according to new study
March 18, 2022
Children previously infected with COVID-19 develop natural circulating antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston.
Previous decline in cervical cancer incidence begins to reverse in low-income U.S. counties and stall in high-income counties
March 3, 2022
The incidence of cervical cancer is starting to rise in low-income U.S. counties and has plateaued in high-income counties in recent years, after years of decreases, according to a new study led by investigators from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) and published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.
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