Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
August 24, 2022
Researchers are hoping to determine if taking a statin could help prevent dementia and other functional disabilities in older adults. The randomized, controlled study, Pragmatic Evaluation of Events and Benefits of Lipid-lowering in Older Adults (PREVENTABLE), is enrolling patients over the age of 75.
August 24, 2022
A new study identified multiple risk factors, including high utility bills, employment hardship, and medical hardship, that may lead to food insecurity among mothers of young children, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
August 23, 2022
Insecure income associated with nontraditional employment known as “gig work” has a negative impact on the overall health and well-being of U.S. workers, according to a new article by researchers from UTHealth Houston.
August 22, 2022
A four-year, $2.25 million grant to identify a novel approach for facilitating smoking abstinence and limiting post-smoking cessation weight gain has been awarded to UTHealth Houston researcher Luba Yammine, PhD, by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
August 19, 2022
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the superolateral branch of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB), which is linked to reward and motivation, revealed metabolic brain changes over 12 months post-DBS implantation, making it a strong potential therapy for treatment-resistant depression according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
August 11, 2022
A five-year, $1.95 million grant to research novel pathways through which endothelial cells, the inner cellular lining of blood vessels, control inflammation has been awarded to UTHealth Houston researcher Jessica C. Cardenas, PhD, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
August 10, 2022
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, which is held to observe the importance and need for education about vaccines.
August 8, 2022
While research has revealed that children and adults hospitalized with COVID-19 are more susceptible to developing long COVID symptoms, a new study by researchers at UTHealth Houston found that children infected with COVID-19, but not hospitalized, still experienced long COVID symptoms up to three months past infection.
The study was published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
July 29, 2022
A study led by the lab of Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases in the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has discovered a new molecular mechanism-controlling metabolism.
July 27, 2022
Kisha McClintock always knew she had a genetic predisposition for sickle cell disease, but it wasn’t until a cold night in December 2013 that the then 33-year-old woke from her sleep with severe pain in her left knee, sending McClintock to the emergency room and on a years-long search for answers.
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