UTMB Quarterly brings you the research highlights, news briefs, faculty perspectives and alumni news of the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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Spring 03 (entire issue)

Forestalling Frailty
By Jim Kelly
Researchers at UTMB's Claude Pepper Center are making it easier for older people to stay stronger.

Catching A Killer
By Judie L. Kinonen
For years, workers making synthetic rubber suspected that butadiene exposure was linked to leukemia. UTMB researchers helped prove them right.

A Signal Discovery
By Animesh Chandra
E. Brad Thompson has spen much of his career on a quest to understand the mysterious glucocorticoid receptor. Along the way, he discovered a way to kill cancer cells.

Just What About 'Do Not Resuscitate' Do You Not Understand?
By Ann T. Lemon
When life-and-death questions have t be answered, doctors and nurses turn to UTMB's Ethics Consultation Service.

Departments

Strands
News Briefs
News of the Schools
Portrait of Giving
Faculty Notes
Quote/Unquote
Class Notes
Body and Soul

Death in the Wind
By Jim Kelly
In Russia, UTMB's Dr. David Walker uncovered a terrible secret; the true source of the worst anthrax epidemic in history.

Following the Viral Trail Around the World
By Abigail Zuger
From tropical jungles to maximum-containment labs, C.J. Peters has spent decades hunting the most dangerous microorganisms on Earth.

Thinking Small
By Patrick L. Barry
Dr. James F. Leary and his colleagues are exploring a new type of therapy that can fix cells from the inside out.

Departments

Strands
News Briefs
News of the Schools
Portrait of Giving
Faculty Notes
Quote/Unquote
Class Notes
Body and Soul

Whatever Happened to Herpes?
(herpes now afflicts over 22 percent of those over age twelve.)

Dr. Natural
(UTMB's Dr. Vic Sierpina bridges the gap between doctors and their increasingly holistic patients)

Local Hero
(Dr. Gordon Klein and his fight to reduce toxic levels of aluminum in infant formula)

Winter 2001 (entire issue)

Gateways to the Cells
(membrane protein research)

Three Brothers
(some of UTMB's first black graduates)

Killer Virus
(yellow fever)

Listening to the Heart 
(Dr. Thornton's unique machine)

Summer/Fall 2000

Giant
(Dr. Blocker Remembered)

Making Up For Lost Time
(preemie development)

"I've Had a Hell of a Life"
(seniors writing workshop)

Spring 2000 (entire issue)

Eyes on the Prize
(African-American Art)
Double Docs 
(educating M.D.-Ph.D. students)
The Doctor Will See You Now
(telemedicine)
The Scent of a Sea Slug
(amazing pheromone)

Winter 2000 (entire issue)

Fighting for Breath  
Fighting for Breath (asthma)
Going the Extra Mile 
(student volunteers on the Tex-Mex border)
The Bestseller Nobody Knows (juvenile diabetes)

Fall 1999 (entire issue)

The Dream Team Meets the Real Phantom Menace  
(work on bioterrorism)
Dr. Roger's Neighborhood (community health clinic)
Pain, Pain, Go Away  
(pain pathways)
How the Kissing Disease Virus Causes Cancer 
(Epstein-Barr virus)

Spring 1999 (entire issue)

Accident or Suicide?
(brain cell death)
Bone Tired
(traumatic brain injuries and sleepiness)
Muscleman 
(muscle mass in space)

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