UTMB’s Dr. Agenor Limon was one of the experts consulted by Prevention for this story on brain development. “We may not learn as easily as we did when we were kids, but we can still learn,” says Limon.

“If you don't have a good mitigation strategy today, you're dead in the water," says Ejay Birkmeyer, assistant vice president of revenue cycle operations at UTMB, tells healthleaders for this story on HIPPA regulations and cyber security.

Vaccine Smarts writers Dr. Megan Berman and Dr. Richard Rupp answer questions about measles vaccines in their latest column. Should you get a booster if you can’t remember if you had the measles vaccine? Can a 3-year-old get their second MMR vaccine ahead of schedule? Should I get a booster if traveling to West Texas? Berman and Rupp answer these and other questions.

Dr. Victor Sierpina continues his series on cultivating joy in life. Sierpina draws from wisdom shared by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Viktor E. Frankl and others.

There is “no evidence that vitamin A supplementation improves the outcome of measles in a child who has no vitamin A deficiency in the United States,” UTMB’s Dr. Susan McLellan tells The Hill for a story on how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians.

Immunity from the measles vaccine available from 1963 to 1967 does not last as long as the current MMR vaccine, Dr. Scott Weaver tells the Morning News. People who received an early iteration of the measles vaccine may want to consider getting another shot, the Morning News reports.

The Associated Press shared a video on YouTube featuring Dr. Scott Weaver explaining what the measles is, how it affects the human body, how it is transmitted and what people can do to avoid getting it.

Of all our senses, smell is probably the least understood, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column. Norbert and Niesel dive into what science does and does not know about how we smell.

The Daily News reported on a UTMB study that found that patients carrying the herpes simplex virus and chickenpox are at a significantly higher risk of developing dementia.

UTMB’s Dr. Philip Keiser helped PolitiFact debunk the idea that the West Texas measles outbreak was started by vaccinated individuals shedding measles virus. Keiser told PolitiFact there’s no scientific literature supporting the notion that a vaccine virus shed from someone who is vaccinated would be transmissible. This news was also shared by Poynter and the Austin American-Statesman.