March 10, 2021
Doralyn Davenport, a 54-year-old woman from Crosby, knew something wasn’t right when she started to have stomach pains, difficulty going to the bathroom, and bleeding. She was shocked when a colorectal screening colonoscopy revealed a more than 6-centimeter tumor in her gastrointestinal tract, and was worried how undergoing chemotherapy and radiation might impact her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs.
March 10, 2021
Imagine that every time you ate something, you experienced stomach pain and cramping. This was the reality for Naqibullah Laghmanai. After years of being unable to find the cause of his condition or receive successful treatment for symptoms, he finally found relief thanks to the help of Amit K. Agarwal, MD, FACS, a colorectal surgeon with UT Physicians.
March 10, 2021
For almost five years William “Will” McWhorter has worked alongside health care experts as the practice manager of the UT Physicians Multispecialty — The Heights clinic. One day, his close relationship to his co-workers paid off in a major and life-changing way.
March 10, 2021
Treating patients with stem cells from their own bone marrow could lead to a reduction in brain injury after a stroke caused by a blood clot, according to research by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
March 8, 2021
One of the nation’s largest research projects aimed at measuring the outcomes of medication-assisted recovery (MAR) housing for opioid-use disorder will launch this spring, led by harm reduction specialists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in partnership with the Health and Human Services Commission’s Texas Targeted Opioid Response Program (TTOR).
March 5, 2021
Daylight saving time is one week away, and as many look forward to the longer and warmer days that accompany this time change, losing an hour of sleep can have you feeling out of sorts. An expert with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) shares why it’s important to prepare our bodies for the time change.
March 4, 2021
Researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Rice University have created a peptide-based immunotherapy, called SynerGel, to aid in oral cancer.
March 3, 2021
At 31 weeks and 5 days pregnant with identical twins, Amberlyn Smith went to her bi-weekly ultrasound feeling confident. Just two weeks prior, both of the twins had grown appropriately and screening tests came back normal. But that day, Dec. 23, there was a clear discrepancy in their size, as well as a notable abnormality in their blood flow. Smith was immediately sent to see an intervention specialist with UTHealth at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, where she emergently delivered the twins the next morning, on Christmas Eve.
March 2, 2021
About 70,000 Houstonians will develop epilepsy in their lifetime, and those who do not speak English as their first language can face challenges in getting care, which could contribute to poorer outcomes, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. To address that language gap, UTHealth Neurosciences has opened the Spanish language Clínica Hispana de Epilepsia in the Texas Medical Center.
February 27, 2021
“You may be quick to compare Johnson & Johnson’s figures to those of previously authorized vaccines, such as Pfizer or Moderna, but a 66% percent efficacy rate of preventing symptomatic illness is worth celebrating,” said Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, an assistant professor at UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas.
