Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 05/26/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=09ca5dddea7001f1 As it plans for its future, the University of Texas Medical Branch is looking at what it does and how it pays for it. But it is one part of that planning — how to cut costs... more »

Infection Control Today (Internet) 05/26/06 http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/hotnews/65h26941162089.html According to two articles in the May 25, 2006, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, seven out of eight infected transplant recipients died from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus... more »

Science Daily (Internet) 05/25/06 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060524124401.htm Using one of the newest and most powerful tools of biomedical science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) researchers have scored a dramatic success in the battle against colorectal... more »

Star of Mysore (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=9673 The talented academician, who has his roots in the city, Dr. B.K. Muralidhara, has done Mysore proud by bagging the coveted 'Young Investigator Award' from the American Society for Pharmacology and... more »

Rediff India Abroad (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://us.rediff.com/news/2006/may/24lie.htm?q=np&file=.htm Trisha Pasricha asserts that she can catch even the smartest bluffers for the most part, working on their digestive tract, by administering a polygraph test, except she does it with an... more »

Washington DC Post (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402333.html A virus killed three patients in the past year after they received donated body organs, and a pet hamster may be partly to blame, a report said yesterday. The deaths... more »

MedPage Today (Internet) 05/25/06 http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/GeneralSurgery/tb/3408 In December 2003, four organ transplant recipients developed fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, altered mental states, seizures, and multiple organ failures. All four patients had received grafts from the same... more »

Beaumont Enterprise (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16689867&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512589&rfi=6 The decision to evacuate the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston was anything but easy for Karen Sexton, chief executive officer. With no... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f1d71aa40da43fd0 Miles Cloyd has studied the virus that causes AIDS for more than 20 years. Often chafing at conventional wisdom, his ideas were not always popular. Yet one of the University... more »

New England Journal of Medicine (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/21/2208 Editorial by Dr. Clarence Peters: What should be done about controlling LCMV in organ transplantation? The testing of potential donors by means of polymerase chain reaction or... more »