Galveston County Daily News, August 29, 2012

Construction of the new concourse that will connect John Sealy Hospital with six other UTMB buildings began Aug. 24. The project is designed to modernize 75,000 square feet of first-floor corridor and lobby space. Completion is scheduled for June 2013. Two detours are planned around the... more »

By Maureen Bayless Balleza It was 9:12 a.m. on April 16 1947 and the surgical instruments rattled on a tray while Dr. Truman G. Blocker Jr. was performing surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Rushing to a window he saw a mushroom cloud and imagined the beginning of another... more »

Galveston County Daily News, August 21, 2012

UTMB staff and faculty celebrated the completely renovated Blocker Burn Unit, the first burn center in the United States to be a verified center of excellence by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, an accreditation it has maintained continuously... more »

Galveston County Daily News, August 14, 2012

Incoming physician assistant students at UTMB received white coats in a ceremony that welcomed them into their new program of professional study. The highlight of the ceremony, which was at 6 p.m. Aug. 3 at Levin Hall on the UTMB campus, was when the 89 members of the Class of 2014 donned their... more »

Galveston County Daily News, August 13, 2012

A UTMB program lets undergraduate students work on a summer research project under the guidance of a selected faculty member. “Our Summer Undergraduate Research Program is run by the GSBS and is a program in which undergraduate students who are in college can come to UTMB to work on a summer... more »

Galveston County Daily News, July 31, 2012

Dr. Courtney Townsend, UTMB chairman of the department of surgery, writes that one of the most remarkable developments to benefit patients has been the increasing use and sophistication of minimally invasive surgery using robotic systems. Minimally invasive surgery is changing the way doctors and... more »

Texas Medical Center News, July 15, 2012

New mothers who give birth to babies who are full-term but small are twice as likely as other women to develop ischemic heart disease, note researchers at UTMB. Dr. Radek Bukowski,  professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UTMB, said they discovered that “pregnancies that produce... more »

Galveston County Daily News, July 3, 2012

A study published last year showed lung cancer deaths could be significantly reduced when patients with heavy smoking histories but no symptoms received low-dose CT chest scans. UTMB has introduced a new lung cancer screening program that is painless and takes less than a minute. The cost is $300 at... more »

Galveston County Daily News, June 19, 2012

Lung-transplant recipient Mike Bright wound up back at John Sealy Hospital a year after surgery. He wanted it that way. “I have a lot of people to thank,” said Bright, 60, an aerospace manager from League City. After he met with UTMB’s Dr. Vincent Valentine, a transplant... more »

Galveston County Daily News, June 18, 2012

A waste recycling partnership between the city of Galveston and UTMB is paying off big by making Styrofoam small. Styrofoam, or expanded polystyrene foam, is 95 percent air and, until recently, could not be efficiently reduced and recycled. In the partnership’s first year, however, UTMB... more »