May 26, 2022
Three generations of Jon Huffman’s family have suffered Huntington’s disease – a rare, inherited, ultimately fatal disease that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain and is best known for the associated involuntary movements, as well as cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. So it didn’t come as a particular surprise to Jon or Patricia Huffman, his wife of 36 years, when Jon began showing symptoms of the neurodegenerative disorder around 2007.
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.
May 9, 2022
Anne Briggs always longed to be a mom, but she knew when she married her husband Mark in 2020 that conceiving a child naturally would be unlikely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
