Women don’t go to prison to bond with their babies. But that’s what can
happen at the Sheltered Housing Unit at the Carole Young Medical Facility in
Texas City. The minimum security unit has helped female offenders with medical
needs since 1996. It serves both state jail and Texas Department of Criminal
Justice offenders. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston provides
the medical care.
GALVESTON, Texas — Dr. Erica Kelly, clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston, has a personal interest in a study she hopes to begin soon.
She is awaiting funding and approval to do research on using Fraxel laser
treatments for burn scars.
GALVESTON, Texas — Because the threat of genetic birth defects is still very
real, says Dr. Neena Champaigne of UTMB’s Division of Clinical Genetics,
prospective parents who fall into several broad categories definitely should
seek genetic counseling and screening before starting a family.
GALVESTON, Texas — A quilt created by Carol M. Wiggs, an assistant professor
at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing, was
featured in the January 2007 of the American Journal of Nursing. The quilt was
selected for the magazine’s Art of Nursing feature.
GALVESTON, Texas — The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston ranked
10th among Texas universities for the amount of funds contributed by private
donors for its support in 2006, according to a national survey conducted by the
Council for Aid to Education.
GALVESTON, Texas — Capt. Tonya White, a post-master’s student in the School
of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has been
named Company Grade Officer Nurse of the Year and Company Grade Officer of the
Year for the 59th Medical Wing at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio.
GALVESTON, Texas — A healthy dose of fun and educational activities for the
entire family will be available at the 13th Annual Galveston County Health Fair,
Saturday, March 3, in the parking lot of Academy Sports and Outdoors at 4523
Fort Crockett Blvd. in Galveston. Students from all four schools at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston organize the health fair each
year to benefit residents of Galveston County.
Development could lead to creation of an artificial retina
GALVESTON, Texas – The world’s first direct electrical link between
nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers
at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University
of Michigan. The development opens the door to applying the unique properties of
nanoparticles to a wide variety of light-stimulated nerve-signaling devices —
including the possible development of a nanoparticle-based artificial retina.
GALVESTON, Texas – The Texas Medical Rangers are looking for new
volunteers, especially medical personnel, to respond in a community or statewide
emergency.
“We need doctors and nurses as commissioned officers, but also technicians
and non-medical personnel to serve as non-commissioned officers,” said Dr.Brian
Zachariah, a lieutenant colonel in the Texas State Guard and the ranking
Galveston officer. He is also director of the Emergency Department at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
GALVESTON, Texas – More than 600 members of the Southern Nursing
Research Society will be co-hosted by the School of Nursing at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston when the organization convenes its 21st Annual
Conference, Feb. 22-24, at Moody Gardens.
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch clinics will
be open for business on Monday, Feb. 19, President’s Day, even though many
employees will mark the day as a holiday. UTMB hospitals never close and clinics
will be open, as usual, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. For information on the clinics
or to schedule an appointment, please call (409) 772-2222.
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB)
believe they’ve found a way to spot the biochemical profile of an inappropriate
immune response to viral infection — an important step toward developing new
therapies that may head off or stop an otherwise fatal immune system meltdown.
‘Blew Notes Trio’ set for Feb. 14
GALVESTON, Texas – Artist Israel McCloud will open his “Blew Notes
Trio” exhibit at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, with a performance integrating
visual art, poetry and jazz at the University of Texas Medical Branch Moody
Medical Library. He will be accompanied by musician Ralph Gil.
“As a visual artist, I am painting sound; creating physical imagery to
music,” McCloud said. “I’ve been told that my art looks like jazz sounds.”
New program is free and meets in evenings
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is
launching a diabetes self-management program starting Wednesday, Feb. 14. The
program, called Take Action, focuses on seven diabetes self-care behaviors.
‘The Secret Lives of Frames’ Exhibit features Stanford White piece
GALVESTON, Texas – A rare picture frame designed by prominent 20th
century architect Stanford White and owned by the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston is one of 100 historic antique frames on display in a
centennial exhibit titled The Secret Lives of Frames.
GALVESTON, Texas – Child experts have long understood that children
will often express in art what they can't or won't say in words. For this
reason, child life specialists at UTMB Children's Hospital have used art therapy
as part of the facility's holistic approach to patient care for many years. The
effort has now grown beyond the walls of the hospital, thanks to the Art Stars
Program.
Training a new generation of experts to enable future treatment, research on
rare diseases
GALVESTON, Texas – Porphyrias haven't captured the imagination of many
young medical researchers. This is because support to train porphyria experts
has been lacking. That's not a good thing for those who suffer from the rare and
often painful disorders. Patients with any rare disease need expert physicians
whom they can consult on the best available approaches to diagnose and treat
them.
Alternative sources in short supply
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
is again asking community members to donate blood.
The UTMB Blood Bank continues
to experience shortages, according to Christi G. Hopkins, administrative
coordinator for donor services at the blood bank
Soto to head center; latest gift brings Mitchells' total contributions to
UTMB aging and neurodegenerative disease programs to more than $10 million
GALVESTON, Texas – A recent $5 million gift from George and Cynthia
Mitchell to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston raises to $10.5
million the couple's investment in UTMB and its programs to fight
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and to
improve the quality of life for seniors. Their most recent gift will allow for
expanded research at the university's George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, which previously focused solely on
Alzheimer's disease.
Bestselling author to address addiction recovery
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will
host a seminar by bestselling author John Bradshaw at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March
14, in Levin Hall Auditorium, on the corner of Market and 10th streets in
Galveston. The event is free and open to the public.
GALVESTON, Texas – Clifford W. Houston, Ph.D., has been named to the National
Advisory General Medical Sciences Council by Michael O. Leavitt, secretary of
Health and Human Services. Houston is an associate vice president for
educational outreach and the Herman Barnett Distinguished Endowed Professor in
Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston.
GALVESTON, Texas – Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley was
inducted as an inaugural Legend in Medicine at the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston on Saturday, Jan. 20. Cooley completed his first two years
in medical school at UTMB from 1941 through 1942.
A natural link: UTMB infectious disease and telemedicine expertise
GALVESTON, Texas – As a half-dozen University of Texas Medical Branch
infectious disease, telemedicine and other experts gathered in the UTMB
telemedicine studio early on the morning of Jan. 22, a movie screen before them
filled with the larger-than-life image of a bearded, prostrate 50-year-old
herdsman in the Masalani Hospital of northeastern Kenya, who at that very moment
was battling for his life.
New technique holds promise for reducing back surgery failure Experiments in
rats show surgical trauma lowered by pretreating spinal cord with local
anesthetic
GALVESTON, Texas – Texas researchers believe that they have discovered how to
prevent many cases of the most common problem encountered by patients undergoing
spine surgery: failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS).
Donors sought to boost supplies
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is
asking community members to donate blood. Recent inclement weather has reduced
the supply at the UTMB Blood Bank, according to Christi G. Hopkins,
administrative coordinator for donor services at the blood bank “Supplies have
fallen below acceptable levels,” she said.
GALVESTON, Texas – Dr. Ben G. Raimer has been named the recipient of the 2007
Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award by the Galveston Kingfest Committee.
The award is presented annually to an individual who has helped to support a
higher quality of life for members of the Galveston community. Raimer is vice
president and chief executive officer for community health services at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Classes open to those 55 and older
GALVESTON, Texas – The Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston will hold registration for spring classes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 29, in Room 301 at the Open Gates Conference Center, 2419 Sealy
St., in Galveston. Pre-registration is available by phone on Jan. 22 and 23 at
(409) 747-4657.
GALVESTON, Texas–Dr. A. Clinton White Jr., a nationally recognized expert in
tropical medicine and a former professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has
joined the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston (UTMB) as chief of its
Infectious Diseases Division,
department chair Randall J. Urban has announced.
Donation allows discount for screening colonoscopy
GALVESTON, Texas – A $100,000 gift to UTMB's Colon Cancer Prevention Program
will support patient discounts for screening colonoscopies, considered the best
method for early detection of colon cancer. The contribution will also fund
community outreach and education efforts to increase public understanding of
colon cancer prevention.
Contribution part of $1.5 million commitment
GALVESTON, Texas – The Nelda C. and
H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation has contributed $500,000 to the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to support ongoing educational and patient
care programs at the foundation's namesake diabetes center, located on the
academic health center's campus. This contribution is the final installment of a
$1.5 million grant the foundation awarded in 2004 to benefit the
Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark
Diabetes Center.
GALVESTON, Texas – The Emergency Management Association of Texas has named
the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the city of Galveston as
co-recipients of the 2006 Excellence in Emergency Management Award for their
actions during the Hurricane Rita evacuation.
Wrinkles, scars treated with little recovery time
GALVESTON, Texas – A new solution to a variety of skin problems promises fast
results with minimal downtime, according to dermatologists with the University
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
GALVESTON, Texas ― When Houston surgeon Charles H. McCollum was in residency,
his training involved long hours in the operating room observing procedures and
learning by doing under the guidance of his professors. Today, surgical
residents continue to train in the operating room, but with shorter work hours
and evolving technologies, new opportunities to train physicians and improve
patient safety continue to appear in teaching hospitals. Now, thanks to a
generous gift from McCollum, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
can take the first steps to plan the Charles H. McCollum, M.D., Surgical
Simulation Laboratory.
Student-run organization offers primary health care to underserved patients
in Texas' Rio Grande Valley
GALVESTON, Texas – Since 1998, University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston students have been traveling to South Texas to offer health care to
some of the nation's poorest citizens as part of a group called
Frontera de Salud. The service
organization, founded and staffed by UTMB students, has significantly expanded
its humanitarian efforts one year after receiving a $50,000 grant from the
William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
GALVESTON, Texas ― The Galveston Partners in Composting ― a partnership of
the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the city of Galveston and
Moody Gardens ― would like Galveston area residents to do their part in helping
the environment by turning Christmas trees into valuable mulch.
GALVESTON, Texas – The 15 men and women who died in last year's explosion at
the BP Texas City Refinery will be remembered today when their relatives and
loved ones, along with the most seriously injured survivors and their family
members, visit the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to
commemorate a new fund established in memory of those who died.
WHEN:
11 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006
Tour, UTMB Truman G. Blocker Burn Unit
Noon, news conference
12:45 p.m., Luncheon (media invited)
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GALVESTON, Texas– Breast-feeding protects children otherwise made susceptible
to ear infections by abnormalities in specific human genes, researchers at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered.
Run helps provide equipment to athletes with disabilities
GALVESTON – A group of students from the University of Texas Medical Branch
at Galveston School of Allied Health Sciences has raised more than $2,500 for
charity through their participation in the Chevron Houston Marathon on Jan. 14.
GALVESTON, Texas – Barbara Sapp Davis, a nursing master's student at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing, received a
2006 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award for her work on behalf
of African American veterans. Davis received the award at the caucus' reception
in Washington, D.C., in September. A local presentation was held Nov. 29 at the
the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston. Rep. Sheila
Jackson-Lee presented the award at the Houston ceremony.
GALVESTON, Texas–The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB)
has received a $9.5 million grant from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to
better control influenza epidemics in the developing world.
GALVESTON, Texas – UTMB President John D. Stobo is one of five physicians in
the United States and Canada to be recognized by the
Gold Humanism Honor Society for sustained leadership in medical humanism and
professionalism. The five inaugural recipients were honored at the 2006
Association of American Medical Colleges in Seattle, which ended Nov. 1.
GALVESTON, Texas – World AIDS Day will be observed at the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston with a candlelight vigil beginning at 5:30 p.m. on
Thursday, Nov. 30, at the Moody Medical Library Plaza, Market Street between
ninth and 10th streets.
GALVESTON, Texas ― In an effort to ensure future doctors have the skills to
provide compassionate care through sound, culturally sensitive practice, the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the
University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio and the University of Texas
System have committed $1 million to support the Collaboration on Health Care
Advocacy and Professionalism.
Jamaica Beach resident contributes to study of incurable eye disease
GALVESTON, Texas – Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston have received a generous contribution from a Jamaica Beach resident
that will help them purchase vital equipment for their studies involving
age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people 55
and older.
Washington, D.C. – Two University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB)
researchers are among 449 scientists nationally named as
American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) Fellows, a distinction conferred annually upon selected AAAS
members by their peers. UTMB now has a total of thirteen such fellows.
GALVESTON, Texas – The 1,777-member Alpha Delta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau
International, the honor society of nursing at the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston, will induct new members in a ceremony on Friday, Dec. 1.
The event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at Levin Hall. More than 160 inductees
have been invited to the ceremony.
GALVESTON, Texas – A 10-year, $12.5 million contribution will create a
permanent endowment to benefit research and patient care conducted in the Truman
G. Blocker Burn Unit at UTMB. The contribution is part of the settlement of a
lawsuit involving BP PLC. UTMB may also receive up to an additional $2 million
to support the adult burn program if commitments for matching funds can be
secured within the next six months. The BP contribution is part of a negotiated
settlement with Eva Rowe for the death of her parents, James and Linda Rowe, who
both died in the March 2005 BP–Texas City plant explosion. The blast injured
more than170 people. Twenty-three of the most critically injured workers were
treated at UTMB. All 23 survived.
GALVESTON, Texas – Patients and visitors to the University of Texas Medical
Branch will have exclusive use of the parking garage at Eighth and Market
streets during daytime business hours starting later this month. UTMB employees
who currently use the lot will move to the new University Plaza parking garage,
which is expected to open Nov. 29.
Performance part of worldwide anniversary celebration
GALVESTON – Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, will join seven other UTMB faculty members
and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard
Shaw's “The Doctor's Dilemma,” Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Strand Street Theatre,
2317 Ship's Mechanic Row in Galveston. Admission to the production is free and
open to the public. A reception will precede the performance.
GALVESTON, Texas – Senior
Services at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is hosting a
free presentation in LaMarque and Texas City in November.
Diana Reed, a social work supervisor in Geriatric Services at UTMB, will
discuss “Beating the Blues.” Those who attend will learn how to recognize
symptoms of depression and how to cope. The presentation is part of the Circle
of Life … Transitions lecture series for seniors and family members.
GALVESTON, Texas – Dr. Garland D. Anderson has been selected dean of the School
of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, President
John D. Stobo announced today. His appointment is effective immediately.
Anderson, who was serving as interim dean, has led UTMB's Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology for 17 years. During his tenure, the department has
consistently ranked among the top 20 in National Institutes of Health research
funding, and most recently was ranked fourth in the nation. He holds the Jennie
Sealy Smith Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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GALVESTON, Texas – The 2006 Salute to Nursing Golf Tournament and Auction
Party raised more than $90,000 to support scholarships for students attending
the School of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
The event was held on Oct. 13.
Ruth Morris was the first chair of the Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Department
GALVESTON, Texas – The first person to chair the Department of
Clinical Laboratory Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston School of Allied Health Sciences has pledged to establish two endowed
presidential scholarships for outstanding UTMB students in that program.
New treatment approach holds promise for children infected by dangerous
respiratory virus
GALVESTON, Texas–When a child under the age of 2 contracts a respiratory
tract infection requiring hospitalization, odds are that the cause is
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
One of the world's most common and dangerous early-childhood infections, RSV
puts more than 100,000 children a year in the hospital in the U.S. alone; the
infection may also increase the chances that a child will develop asthma.
Position effective Dec. 1
GALVESTON, Texas – Effective Dec. 1, Elizabeth Protas will be appointed
interim dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston. In late August, Dean Charles H. Christiansen
announced that he would be leaving UTMB after 17 years to take a leadership
position at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. Christiansen's
last day in his leadership role at UTMB will be Dec. 1.
UTMB hosts class for educators, nurses, social workers
GALVESTON, Texas – Experts from the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston will address the needs of childhood cancer survivors returning to
school in a lecture from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at UTMB Children's
Hospital, Ninth and Market streets, in Galveston. A light dinner will be served.
Expert in treating alcohol, drug addiction to give distinguished lecture at
UTMB
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Center
for Addiction Research and the Gulf Coast Center invites the public to a lecture
by trailblazing researcher A. Thomas McLellan, who was among the first to call
addiction a chronic illness.
GALVESTON, Texas – Christopher J. Logothetis, an internationally renowned
prostate cancer researcher and physician, will discuss future research
developments that may translate into hope for patients with prostate cancer at
the next meeting of the Galveston County Prostate Cancer Education and Support
group. The meeting, which is open to the public, is at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23,
at the William Temple Episcopal Center, 427 Market St. (east entrance), in
Galveston. Logothetis will discuss current and proposed treatments of interest
to patients and their families. He will also answer questions about prostate
cancer.
GALVESTON, Texas – One of the most dangerous risks of contracting a serious
bacterial infection is that the victim may develop sepsis–an overreaction by the
immune system causing destructive inflammation throughout the body, often
leading to heart and other organ failure and death. Even the best hospital
intensive care units may be helpless to save patients stricken by severe sepsis.
According to a 2003 study by Emory University and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, sepsis killed 120,491 hospitalized people in 2000. The
same study found cases of sepsis in the U.S. have risen dramatically in recent
decades, nearly tripling from 82.7 cases out of every 100,000 Americans in 1979
to 240.4 cases per 100,000 in 2000. Muppets creator Jim Henson died of the
disease in 1990 at age 53.
GALVESTON, Texas ― Marc Shabot, professor of gastroenterology at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has been recognized for his
significant contributions to the field of gastroenterology by the Texas Society
for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. Shabot was presented with the Marcel
Patterson-Robert Nelson Award recently at the society's annual meeting in San
Antonio. As the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy's highest
award, it honors gastroenterologists who make exceptional contributions to the
field of GI.
Stobo times announcement with legislative session in mind
GALVESTON, Texas –
University of Texas Medical Branch President John D. Stobo announced today his
decision to relinquish his administrative duties on Aug. 31, 2007, at the end of
UTMB's current academic year. Stobo said he decided to announce now because
“leadership changes should be made with the legislative calendar in mind.”
The Texas Legislature, which meets on a biennial basis, will convene in January
2007 and January 2009. Stobo said success in the upcoming legislative sessions
will be critically important to UTMB's financial security, and to its mission of
health sciences education, research and patient care.
Telemedicine link enables UTMB psychiatrists to help Galveston County teens
GALVESTON, Texas –The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston
recently was awarded a $500,000 matching grant to bring adolescent behavioral
health services to the Galveston Independent School District (GISD) via medical
two-way video conferencing systems. The grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation is matched by funding from six Galveston and Houston foundations.
GALVESTON, Texas – Senior Services at the University of Texas Medical Branch
at Galveston is hosting a free presentation in Dickinson and Galveston in
October.
M.L. (Penny) Davis, of the UTMB Senior Services Office, and Gina Villarreal,
of Regency Home Health, will discuss “How to Make the Most of Where You Live.”
Those who attend will learn how to plan ahead and simplify their environment.
The presentation is part of the Circle of Life … Transitions lecture series for
seniors and family members.
Contribution part of foundation's $1 million pledge
GALVESTON, Texas – Five University of Texas Medical Branch projects, ranging
from a summer biomedical research program for college undergraduates to a
telemedicine mental health services project, are benefiting from the Harris and
Eliza Kempner Fund's recent $125,000 contribution to the academic health center.
The funding is part of the $1 million pledge the Galveston foundation made to
UTMB in 2003, the largest single commitment to the university in the Kempner
Fund's 60-year history.
Drug that inhibits inflammatory factor is already in human clinical
trials for use in diabetes
GALVESTON, Texas – Texas researchers have discovered what may become a potent
new weapon in the fight against colon cancer.
In cell culture experiments, scientists from the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Texas at Arlington determined
that stopping the activity of a single enzyme called aldose reductase could shut
down the toxic network of biochemical signals that promotes inflammation and
colon cancer cell growth.
Grant supports purchase of confocal microscope, hiring of postdoctoral
fellow
GALVESTON, Texas – A $500,000 grant from the
Cullen Foundation will support
neurological stem cell research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston by funding the purchase of an advanced microscope and supporting a
postdoctoral fellow who assists in the studies to optimize stem cell therapy.
GALVESTON, Texas – Dr. T. Samuel Shomaker, the first dean of Austin programs
for the University of Texas Medical Branch, will be introduced to Travis County
physicians and UTMB alumni from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 25, at the
Headliners Club. Shomaker holds a law degree from Georgetown University and a
medical degree from the University of Hawaii. He became dean on Sept.1.
GALVESTON, Texas – Elizabeth Protas, a faculty member at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, is the winner of the Herbert H. deVries Award
for Distinguished Research in the Field of Aging for 2007. Protas is chair of
the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Allied Health Sciences. The
award will be presented at the council's annual conference in Baltimore, Md., in
March 2007.
GALVESTON, Texas – Looking for a cancer cure? Try the spice rack. In the last
few years, that tactic has proved productive for researchers investigating
turmeric, a curry spice used for centuries in Indian traditional medicine.
Two state governors share child advocacy advice during live, interactive
discussion
GALVESTON, Texas – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will
host a live, interactive teleconference titled “Effective Advocacy in the Pre-K
Movement,” Sept. 20 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Open Gates Conference Center,
2419 Sealy St., in Galveston.
From 2 to 3:30 p.m., the Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition, a
conference sponsor, will announce its 2007 legislative agenda via satellite to
all Texas teleconference sites.
GALVESTON, Texas ― The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston is relocating several clinics to better meet the needs of patients.
The moves will allow the clinics to maximize available resources including
equipment, exam rooms and staff, according to Karen Sexton, vice president and
chief executive officer of UTMB hospitals and clinics.
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GALVESTON, Texas – The 2006 Salute to Nursing Golf Tournament and Auction
Party is dedicated to the memory of Johnny McEldowney, an avid golfer and
well-known Galveston attorney who died of cancer on Aug. 30. The tournament is
planned for Friday, Oct. 13, at the Galveston Country Club.
Eight med school departments cited among top 20; 11 in the top quarter
In fiscal year 2005, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
(UTMB) School of Medicine rose to 38th place among 123 medical schools receiving
funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary funding source
for medical research in the United States, the NIH has reported.
Includes support for stem-cell research and diabetes conference scheduled
Sept. 15 and 16
GALVESTON, Texas – Health professionals from all over Texas will converge on
Galveston September 15 and 16 for a diabetes conference that will offer them the
latest training for instructing patients with the disease how to better manage
their symptoms. Major funding for the New Developments in Diabetes Care
conference, sponsored by the University of Texas Medical Branch's
Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark
Diabetes Center and Office of Continuing Education, is made possible by the
Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation.
GALVESTON, Texas ― To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will host a performance by Lucia and Valdemar
Gitanerías Flamenco Artists of Houston. The concert of Spanish music and dance
starts at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in the UTMB Levin Hall Main Auditorium at the
corner of 10th and Market streets on the UTMB campus.
One of the nation's leading infectious disease scientists, Dr. James W. LeDuc,
will leave the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this
fall to accept a top position with the Institute for Human Infections and
Immunity (IHII) at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston,
IHII director Stanley M. Lemon announced.
GALVESTON, Texas ― The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School
of Medicine is one of the nation's leading medical schools for Hispanics,
according to Hispanic Business magazine's September issue. UTMB was ranked third
on the list, behind Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School. Other Texas medical
schools listed were the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Texas A&M
University System Health Science Center in College Station.
In fiscal year 2005, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB)
School of Medicine rose to 38th place among 123 medical schools receiving
support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary funding source
for medical research in the United States, the NIH has reported.
Dr. Valerie M. Parisi to Remain a University Advisor
