Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
September 11, 2023
The day that Dorcas Osho and her parents moved to the United States, just one day after her fifth birthday, she began screaming in pain. Her parents scrambled to help their daughter and rushed her to a children’s hospital, where she was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia.
September 8, 2023
A three-year, $3.4 million grant to investigate how Alzheimer’s disease is connected to multiple chronic diseases has been awarded to UTHealth Houston researchers by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.
September 7, 2023
Dr. Kristina Whitworth and Dr. Elaine Symanski at Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Thomas F. Northrup at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston received funding from the National Institutes of Health as part of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to recruit a cohort of pregnant people in Houston with the ultimate goal of following their children through age 21 years.
September 5, 2023
A 2021 study revealed that just three National Basketball Association team orthopedic surgeons were women. By the spring of 2022, UTHealth Houston's Bonnie Gregory, MD, had joined them.
August 31, 2023
Simon Young, DDS, associate professor with UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry, is serving as co-investigator on a $2.3 million, multi-institutional federal grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health to help harness the healing power of semiconductor nanotechnology.
August 28, 2023
A new neurohospitalist fellowship program at McGovern Medical School is just the 7th in the country as of 2023 and has brought 2 talented physicians to UTHealth Houston. In this relatively new field, physicians treat hospitalized patients with neurological disorders.
August 28, 2023
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, will chair the Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Muhammad Walji, PhD, will chair the Department of Clinical and Health Informatics. Both begin their respective roles Sept. 1.
August 25, 2023
Researchers estimate that more than 3.1 million Hispanic households are at elevated risk for food insecurity. However, language barriers can thwart efforts to assess how many more are at risk.
August 25, 2023
In early 2019, Michelle Phillips Preng found herself battling crippling anxiety, memory loss, and struggles with vision at night. At the time, Michelle had just gone through a divorce, and her symptoms were often dismissed as signs of stress from the experience. But Michelle – an otherwise healthy and active 45-year-old – knew something wasn’t right.
August 23, 2023
A stroke is the last thing Jamie McCown imagined for herself – especially at age 39. She routinely visited her primary care physician and gynecologist, and didn’t have high blood pressure, cholesterol problems, or cardiac issues that usually correlate with having a stroke. But at eight weeks pregnant, Jamie experienced a stroke in her sleep.
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