Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
April 14, 2025
UTHealth Houston has launched its first academic program in the newly established School of Behavioral Health Sciences: the Master of Science in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (MS CaBS).
April 11, 2025
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston and UTHealth Houston School of Public Health received top honors last week, ranking No.1 in Texas in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report. It’s a repeat No. 1 performance for the School of Public Health and a new accolade for Cizik School of Nursing.
April 10, 2025
Some begged. Some borrowed. Some chose not to pay a bill. Others were evicted. These decisions, made by UTHealth Houston students and other participants at the Community Action Poverty Simulator, highlight the circumstances many patients face while deciding how to pay for health care and medication.
April 8, 2025
Scientists at UTHealth Houston are investigating how the body naturally adapts to hypoxia – an insufficient oxygen supply to the body or specific organs – to develop new treatments for life-threatening heart and lung diseases.
April 3, 2025
A New York native, Asia Bright, PhD, originally fell in love with Houston’s landscape and southern flair while visiting during her junior year of high school. Still, it was her passion for impacting communities and UTHealth Houston that made her want to stay long term.
April 3, 2025
As Raven Landry embarks on another rigorous day of dental school, she hears the sound of tiny feet pattering across the floor, a sound she’s heard nearly every morning since starting at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry.
April 3, 2025
A chaotic scene unfolded at the Cooley University Life Center courtyard on April 1, but it was all part of an elaborate training exercise designed to prepare students for real-life emergency scenarios.
March 31, 2025
In 2002, my grandmother, Faye Sims, now 76, experienced a sharp, debilitating pain in her jaw while at a café in Fairfield, Texas. She ended up in the emergency room, and doctors discovered she had multiple sclerosis (MS). The pain she was experiencing in her face was caused by trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes described as the most excruciating pain known to humanity.
March 31, 2025
UTHealth Houston announced the establishment of the Institute of Perioperative Medicine, which will span different schools, including McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
March 31, 2025
That Thursday morning in January started like any other as Christopher Blankenship, 47, headed into work feeling just fine. However, just a few hours into his eight-hour shift, he felt a slight discomfort between his shoulder blades. He shrugged the pain off, thinking it was a random twinge from a previous accident. But the pain intensified, and Christopher told his co-worker he needed to take a break and sit in his car.
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