Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
March 29, 2019
More than two decades ago, Stephen A. Barnes oversaw Jorge D. Salazar’s training in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. But in October 2017, he found himself on a stainless steel operating table waiting for Salazar to repair a hole in his heart that had been quietly sapping his vitality his entire life.
March 28, 2019
Swollen, achy, and cramping legs may not be an inevitable sign of growing older or yesterday’s long run.
March 22, 2019
Researchers are investigating if daily mindful meditation through an app could decrease anxiety in antepartum patients, who are hospitalized due to pregnancy complications, in a new trial at UTHealth.
March 21, 2019
Frances Trahan will never forget the kindness Ivy Weng, community health education specialist with UT Physicians, showed her.
March 21, 2019
Ryan Quock, DDS, distinguished teaching professor and 2005 alumnus of UTHealth School of Dentistry, is the new chair-elect of the American Dental Education Association Board of Directors for 2019-20.
March 21, 2019
Your brain may stop developing in your 20s but there are ways to keep it sharp over the course of your life, according to brain experts at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
March 18, 2019
About two-thirds of the adults dying prematurely from natural causes did not seek medical help within the 30 days preceding their death, reported forensic researchers.
March 18, 2019
UTHealth has received 58 grants from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas for a combined $84 million.
March 15, 2019
Every year on the first day of school, David Romo would tell his daughter Ashley, “Go get your future.” Today after she ripped open her envelope at Match Day, Ashley Romo hugged her father whispered, “Dad, I got my future.” Along with 238 other students who filled Webber Plaza behind McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Romo discovered where she will take the next step in her journey to become a physician.
March 14, 2019
Although Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) defies many standard treatments, several UTHealth experts are looking for new and effective treatment therapies to conquer the disease.
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