Houston Business Journal, May 20, 2013

Researchers at UTMB have been awarded a $1.8 million, five-year grant to apply methods of gene therapy to pain that arises from malfunctions in the nervous system, known as neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by accidental or disease-induced nerve damage and is difficult to treat, said... more »

The University of Texas Medical Branch has been awarded a $4.9 million grant for the state’s first federally funded center to study how best to care for and promote the health and well-being of elderly patients. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in the Elderly center will be led by Dr.... more »

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to apply the techniques of gene therapy to the problem of neuropathic pain — that is, pain that arises from a malfunction... more »

MSN Healthy Living, May 15, 2013

UTMB’s Douglas Paddon-Jones and Dr. Elena Volpi weigh in on how best to prevent age-related muscle loss. Paddon-Jones advises doing resistance training: “It’s massively important for building muscle — and preventing it from vanishing in the first place.” If you’re... more »

ABC News Radio, May 14, 2013

A virus similar to SARS has spread through hospitals in Europe and the Middle East, prompting fears of human-to-human transmission. But health officials said vaccines were unlikely to play a role in controlling the outbreak, which has sickened 34 people and killed 18. Instead, they've focused on... more »

HealthCanal.com, May 9, 2013

The relationship between the processes of RNA reading and protein folding is at the center of paper recently published in the journal Nature on circadian rhythms. UTMB associate professor José Barral played a key role in the project that produced the paper, which was led by a team from the... more »

Healio, May 6, 2013

As an infant’s nasopharynx is colonized with gram-negative pathogens, the colonization with Staphylococcus aureus declines. S. aureus colonization of infants begins early in life and declines quickly, according to Dr. Pedro Alvarez-Fernandez, a research fellow in pediatrics/infectious disease... more »

All proteins — the complicated biochemical entities that carry out the basic processes of life — are made in the same way. Inside living cells, tiny molecular machines known as ribosomes read messenger RNA, turning the genetic code into long sequences of amino acids. Then these sequences... more »

Time, May 6, 2013

Continuing coverage: The news by UTMB doctors that parents needn’t toss their child’s toothbrush after a bout of strep throat continues to receive widespread coverage. It appears in the Huffington Post and on Philly.com, among other outlets.   more »

NBC News, May 4, 2013

A team of experts from UTMB couldn’t find any strep germs on toothbrushes used by children with strep throat. But they did find potentially nasty germs on two brand-new toothbrushes right out the package. “I was just dumbfounded,” says UTMB’s Dr. Lauren Shepard, who presented... more »