Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
March 25, 2022
When Tiffeny Morrow was 40 years old, she started having strange episodes: She would feel heat in the pit of her stomach, and then her body would freeze into one position for a few moments, as she shook with fear.
March 25, 2022
The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by...
March 23, 2022
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded over $6 million to researchers with UTHealth Houston to aid in cancer prevention research. These awards will expand liver cancer prevention to persons experiencing homelessness, facilitate communication about the HPV vaccine, and find therapeutics that can help destroy gastrointestinal cancer cells.
March 22, 2022
Elizabeth Dravis was a medical field professional, a PhD student at UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston, an avid runner, and mother of two when she started to suffer from extreme fatigue at the beginning of the year. Dravis thought she just needed to rest after a busy holiday season until her symptoms progressively worsened and she passed out.
March 21, 2022
Researchers with UTHealth Houston outline five steps for clinicians to assess their electronic health records (EHR) using the SAFER guidelines.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA.
March 18, 2022
They persevered through two years of the worst pandemic the world has ever seen. Now, more than half of the 228 students who matched from the Class of 2022 of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston will stay in Texas for their residencies.
March 18, 2022
Children previously infected with COVID-19 develop natural circulating antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston.
March 17, 2022
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are 160 times more likely to die from drowning than the general pediatric population, according to research published in the December 2017 issue of Injury Epidemiology. That is why Heather McCrackin, RN, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student at Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), is launching an Autism Drowning Prevention Resource Kit.
March 15, 2022
They persevered through two years of the worst pandemic the world has ever seen. Now more than 225 members of the Class of 2022 of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston will come together Friday, March 18, to celebrate Match Day, the day they learn where they will take their next step in their medical careers.
March 8, 2022
Seeing an egg used to demonstrate bike helmet safety, using pipe cleaners to build a nerve cell, and touching an actual human brain are all part of Brain Night for Kids, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) and The Health Museum.
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