Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
January 10, 2023
School garden-based interventions can improve metabolic parameters such as blood sugar and cholesterol in children, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston.
January 5, 2023
The legacy of Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, lives on in the same communities she sought to impact throughout her career.
January 3, 2023
Dry January can help regular drinkers start the new year with a cleaner slate of health, according to Carman H. Whiting, MD, medical director for UT Physicians Multispecialty – Sienna and assistant professor of family medicine with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
December 23, 2022
Bassel Choucair, associate vice president of IT user experience and support at UTHealth Houston, recently celebrated a significant milestone: 30 years with the university. It has been his first and only place of employment after graduating from Boston University with a degree in biomedical engineering.
December 19, 2022
Patients who are satisfied with their physicians are more likely to follow through with metabolic or bariatric surgery (MBS) regardless of racial or ethnic group, according to a study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston.
December 15, 2022
After hundreds of thousands of miles and 20 years of service, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry has a new set of wheels for its Mobile Dental Van program to continue providing care to underserved communities.
December 12, 2022
HIV is a virus that targets the body’s immune system, and the late stage of this infection becomes AIDS. Thanks to advanced medicine, however, people with HIV can live functional and healthy lives. Jay, 49, is living proof.
December 7, 2022
Brian Blackburne, a 49-year-old Houston native, lived with chronic digestive problems until Oct. 3, 2022. That was the day he met Pritesh Mutha, MD, gastroenterologist with UT Physicians and associate professor of gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
December 6, 2022
A new risk score could help clinicians differentiate viral meningitis from community-acquired bacterial meningitis (CABM), according to a review article by Rodrigo Hasbun, MD, MPH, at UTHealth Houston.
December 2, 2022
A translational research study from collaborating UTHealth Houston laboratories of Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, and Absalon Gutierrez, MD, on the new mechanism mediating the anti-diabetic effects of incretins has been published in Cell Reports Medicine.
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