Medical Journal – Houston, January 1, 2010 - (Link unavailable)

Eye doctors may soon administer drugs into patients’ eyes using pulsing light instead of needles. Groundbreaking research at UTMB’s department of ophthalmology and visual sciences has yielded promising results in laboratory tests, according to UTMB Dr. Bernard Godley. Millions of eye... more »

KHOU-TV (Channel 11, Houston), January 7, 2010

Birth defects from drinking and from smoking while pregnant are among the most preventable, yet they are among the most devastating and costly. While it’s one thing to tell women to stop, it’s quite another for some to do it. According to Mahmoud Ahmed, director of UTMB’s... more »

Times of India, January 5, 2010

Scientists from UTMB and Shriners Hospitals for Children-Galveston have revealed that a compound called glycyrrhizin might be an effective tool in battling life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from severe burns. The study showed that glycyrrhizin improved the ability of... more »

Reuters, December 31, 2009

Researchers at UTMB have found that the prevalence of diabetes among older Mexican Americans increased significantly from 1993-1994 to 2004-2005. A study by Holly A. Beard, Majd Al Ghatrif, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Kerstin Gerst and Kyriakos S. Markides published in the December issue of Diabetes Care... more »

Galveston County Daily News, December 23, 2009

The University of Texas Medical Branch’s National Biocontainment Training Center has received a $5 million boost in federal funding support. The funding, contained in the Department of Defense appropriations bill, was signed into law by the president Monday. The medical branch is a nationally... more »

Galveston County Daily News, December 22, 2009

Eye doctors might soon administer drugs into patients’ eyes using pulsing light instead of needles. Research at UTMB’s department of ophthalmology and visual sciences has yielded promising results in laboratory tests, Dr. Bernard Godley, lead researcher and department chairman and a... more »

Science Daily, December 22, 2009

Nearly half of women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, commonly known as the birth control shot, will experience high bone mineral density loss in the hip or lower spine within two years of beginning the contraceptive, according to UTMB researchers Dr. Abbey Berenson and Dr. Mahbubur Rahman.... more »

Eye doctors may soon administer drugs into patients’ eyes using pulsing light instead of needles. Groundbreaking research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston department of ophthalmology and visual sciences has yielded promising results in laboratory tests, according to Dr.... more »

American Association of Colleges of Nursing News Watch, December 1, 2009

Pamela G. Watson, dean of the UTMB School of Nursing, recently received notice of a $2 million grant from the Department of Education for 2009 hurricane disaster relief. These funds will be used to relocate the Nursing Simulation Center and allow for expanded use by students in all health science... more »

Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2009

Researchers at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio found that an experimental antiviral drug called SPC3649 suppresses hepatitis C in chimpanzees. UTMB microbiologist Stanley M. Lemon, who was not involved in the research, said, “The thing that makes [the new drug]... more »