• New virus emerging from southern countries

    Recently more than 20 cases of Oropouche virus infections were identified in the U.S. in people who traveled to Cuba write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column. Oropouche virus causes a disease that resembles Zika virus disease.

  • Wait—Ozempic Is Linked to ED?

    “We're not proposing that semaglutide causes erectile dysfunction or that it causes low testosterone, but there's an association between the two,” UTMB’s Dr. Joseph Sonsteintells Men’s Health in this story about how semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, may come with a side of erectile dysfunction. This story was also published in Yahoo!life.

  • UTMB neuroscience institute partners with Swiss tech leader

    “Fighting neurological diseases is an exhausting battle, but absolutely worth the effort. Working in collaboration, I think we can truly change the world,” said UTMB President Jochen Reiser at a ceremony celebrating the collaboration between UTMB’s Moody Brain Health Institute and Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, a nonprofit research organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. This news was also reported in Philanthropy News Digest.

  • Rabies is preventable if swift action is taken

    Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp highlight the importance of seeking medical care after a possible rabies exposure in their latest Vaccine Smarts column. Once symptoms emerge it is nearly one hundred percent fatal, yet it is entirely preventable if treated promptly, they write.

  • Spending less, living longer: What the U.S. can learn from Portugal’s innovative health system

    “They take care of people. If you’re poor, you still get health care. And you don’t have to have a job to get health insurance,” UTMB’s Dr. Kyriakos S. Markides tells STAT about Portugal’s health care system. STAT reports that Portugal has a life expectancy nearly four years longer than the U.S. despite spending 20% of what the U.S. does on health care per person.

  • WVSOM graduate is training to provide medical care to space crew

    UTMB aerospace medicine resident Dr. Ethan Stephens was profiled by the West Virginia Daily News. “I knew I wanted to get training in family medicine, but I also had an interest in engineering and spaceflight. I found out about aerospace medicine late in medical school and was able to observe some online lectures about the specialty. I have been hooked ever since,” Stephens said.

  • 'Blue Zones' Under Scrutiny: Are these Longevity Hotspots Just a Myth?

    A recent study has found flaws in the blue zone hypothesis. “I think the paper nicely showed that where we see high levels of supercentenarians, these are also places where we haven't had good reporting on ages,” said UTMB’s Dr. Neil Mehta.

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