Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, March 1, 2010

Vertebral fracture, one of the most frequent osteoporotic fractures in both sexes, is a powerful indicator of future osteoporotic fractures. Vertebral fractures are associated with increased mortality and decreased quality of life. Osteoporosis is a major predictor of low-trauma fracture. The Male... more »

Science Daily, March 5, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, UTMB, Purdue University and Bioqual Inc. have developed an experimental vaccine for chikungunya virus and successfully tested it in monkeys. Described in a paper appearing in the March issue of Nature Medicine, the vaccine is... more »

Mosquito-borne virus has infected millions of people in Asia, Africa and Europe Imagine a mosquito-borne virus that has already infected millions of people in recent outbreaks in South and Southeast Asia, the islands of the Indian Ocean, Africa and northern Italy. Although seldom fatal, it causes... more »

Good Housekeeping, April 1, 2010 - (Link unavailable)

There’s a new, more sensitive way to screen for cervical cancer, yet only 15 percent of doctors are using it. Most cases of cervical cancer - nearly 70 percent - are caused by two strains of a virus detected by a new human papillomavirus test. A research study performed at UTMB found that... more »

Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association, March 1, 2010

The American Association of Veterinary Immunologists presented the Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award to UTMB’s D. Mark Estes. Estes is an internationally recognized veterinary immunologist focusing on immunoregulatory mechanisms in infection and cancer. more »

The Huffington Post, February 11, 2010

According to UTMB researchers, mice born to mothers exposed to low doses of bisphenol A were more likely to have an asthmatic response when subjected to a trigger than mice born to mothers not exposed to BPA. The findings appear in the February issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. The... more »

Healthcare Finance News, February 12, 2010

A recent article in Health Affairs disputes the widely held belief that immigrants place a large financial burden on the U.S. healthcare system. “Trends In Health Care Spending For Immigrants In The United States” examined healthcare spending between 1999 and 2006 for both adult... more »

Galveston County Daily News, February 5, 2010

A chemical used to make everything from plastic water bottles and food packaging to sunglasses and CDs could cause pregnant women’s unborn children to develop asthma, according to UTMB researchers. The article quotes Terumi Midoro-Horiuti, lead author of a paper titled “Maternal... more »

MedPage Today, February 3, 2010

Continuing to receive coverage is a study by UTMB researchers that found a small-molecule “broad spectrum” antiviral that will fight a host of viruses by attacking them through some feature common to an entire class of viruses. Studies of agents - including Ebola virus, Nipah virus and... more »

KPRC-TV (Ch. 2, Houston), February 3, 2010

Researchers at UTMB are asking people, especially mothers or soon-to-be mothers, to limit their exposure to a chemical found in thousands of household items. A mother’s exposure to bisphenol A, a chemical used to make everything from plastic water bottles and food packaging to sunglasses and... more »