Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
February 21, 2022
On the surface, 18-year-old Ayden Fireck was spending his senior year doing the things he loved: working at a local emergency room, practicing drills in the ROTC at his Georgia high school, and deciding where to go to college.
February 18, 2022
Kristina Mena, PhD, MSPH, regional dean of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health El Paso campus has been appointed to the World Triathlon Sustainability Commission. Mena will serve as a representative of the United States and work in conjunction with USA Triathlon, the national governing body for several multisport events in the U.S. Mena is tasked with the responsibility to develop a plan and creative solutions for the environmental considerations in all policy making and events with key stakeholders and local event organizers.
February 18, 2022
Phoebe Dow was among nearly 1,000 patients to participate in the RESPECT trial, a national, randomized clinical trial led locally by Richard Smalling, MD, PhD, which over the course of 12 years compared outcomes between patients who received the PFO closure with medical therapy versus patients who received medical therapy alone. The results from this trial and five others conducted globally from 2000-2017 were analyzed in a paper recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, which was co-authored by Smalling.
February 10, 2022
In recognition of his latest research uncovering the underlying pathology of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), Eunsu Park, PhD, with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), has been honored with the Stroke Basic Science Award at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2022.
February 9, 2022
A trial investigating a potential electric biomarker for mild traumatic brain injury is now recruiting teenage and adult patients at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
February 4, 2022
Online focus groups are an effective way to gather data while also reducing barriers faced by people in low-income and minority groups, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
February 4, 2022
A culinary medicine curriculum had a positive impact on certain biometric and diet-related behavioral and psychosocial outcomes among low-income, food-insecure patients with Type 2 diabetes participating in a clinic-led food prescription program, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
February 3, 2022
Patients who have strokes that might be related to a hole in the heart that didn’t close properly now have a place to go to see both a neurologist and cardiologist: the Heart-Brain Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
February 2, 2022
A new academic psychiatric hospital, part of the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center, will combine the most advanced patient care, research, and education when it opens next month at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) in partnership with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Medical Center.
January 31, 2022
Following Life’s Simple 7 guidelines developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) can significantly lower the risk of coronary heart disease despite a genetic predisposition, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
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