Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
March 6, 2023
As a teenager in his native Turkey, Atilla Ertan, MD, spent every day after school in the hospital—but not for himself. “My younger sister had developed a heart problem and had to stay there,” he says. “When I went to see her, I always left impressed with the doctors.”
March 6, 2023
As a woman in her early 20s, Megan Le’s life should have revolved around her budding career and making memories with friends and family that would last a lifetime. Instead, her focus revolved around her declining health due to uterine fibroids.
March 3, 2023
We are pleased to announce Maria E. Fernández, PhD, as vice president of Population Health and Implementation Science, and Lisa D. Cain, PhD, as associate vice president of Faculty Affairs and Development at UTHealth Houston.
March 2, 2023
Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston.
March 1, 2023
Three grants totaling $15 million, which aim to enhance knowledge of the brain processes that play a key role in speech, epilepsy, and reading, have been awarded to researchers at UTHealth Houston by the National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
February 23, 2023
A new grant-funded pipeline program focuses on local high school students.
February 23, 2023
Chao Hsing Yeh, PhD, enhances smart-phone app for self-administered auricular point acupressure.
February 21, 2023
Brooks says he believes he is exactly where he wants to be in life, and that his unique path was paved with the help of fate and technology.
February 21, 2023
Four faculty, representing three UTHealth Houston schools, are among the inductees into the 2023 class of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, MD, Academy of Health Science Education.
The honor is bestowed annually to outstanding faculty from across UT System’s academic health institutions. They will be formally inducted with a ceremony on March 4.
February 16, 2023
Cheryl Navar was 24 weeks into her pregnancy when doctors found multiple tumors in her unborn baby’s heart. Before baby Nora entered the world, her soon-to-be parents sat in their hometown in Corpus Christi to learn about a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).
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