November 8, 2023
In December 2022, while at day care, Kelsey and Joe Schneider’s 4-month-old daughter Parker suffered her first epileptic seizure, suffering a total of six between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, along with two hospitalizations at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. Kelsey had intense, body-numbing migraines herself, but wasn't aware of any family history of seizures.
October 26, 2023
When asked to describe his lifestyle, Reuben Bronstein, age 79, uses the words “extremely physically active” for the last 40+ years. He was a serious marathon runner until stress fractures in his tibia sidelined him. Exercising on the elliptical and treadmill were not replacement options he enjoyed. Then he bought a rower, and it became his second love to running for the past 13 years.
October 25, 2023
Jude Jackson climbs up the pool slide, navigates the net of an obstacle course, and rides a bike with training wheels. These may seem like simple tasks, but they are miracle milestones for a 4-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who weighed less than 3 pounds at birth.
October 23, 2023
With no known history of spina bifida on either side of their families, Shelly Casey and her husband, Chuck, were shocked to learn their yet-to-be-born daughter, Alison, would have the condition, also known as “split spine.”
October 19, 2023
The Texas Therapeutics Institute at UTHealth Houston, led by Zhiqiang An, PhD, is expanding into the Texas Medical Center’s newly completed TMC3 Collaborative Building.
The institute, part of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, focuses on antibody drug resistance mechanisms, biomarkers for therapeutic antibodies, and antibody drug discovery targeting human diseases.
October 11, 2023
Demetrios Stroubakis, 55, thought he was having a gallbladder attack when he arrived at the emergency room in August 2021 with jaundice. Instead, he was shocked to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
October 5, 2023
Today, as Aisha Atkinson sees her smiling 5-year-old son Aries walking independently, humming the melodies of his favorite pop songs, she is proud of how far her son has come since he entered the world with two massive brain bleeds that developed into hydrocephalus and, consequently, cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that affects mobility and posture.
October 4, 2023
When LaKisha Williams discusses the challenge of managing chronic gastroparesis, she looks at each day as a journey.
October 4, 2023
Michigan native Ruth Bischoff, 69, had tried everything – multiple spine surgeries, a radiofrequency ablation, acupuncture, a spinal cord stimulator, and more – but she couldn’t find any relief from the shooting pain in her lower back that prevented her from standing up straight and walking.
October 4, 2023
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) today announced Alejandro Aballay, PharmD, PhD, a national leader in immune signaling and graduate education, has been named dean of the MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, effective Jan. 2, 2024.
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