• Pot reclassification won't cut arrests but will boost research

    The reclassification of marijuana will change the way researchers will be able to study the drug, Dr. Kathryn Cunningham told the Daily News for a story on the U.S. Justice Department’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. “By reducing it to Schedule III, we would facilitate the research and allow laboratories to gain much more information and knowledge about the impact of marijuana and its constituents on public health,” Cunningham said.

  • When West Nile virus turns deadly

    “Overall, the evidence points to higher temperatures resulting in more bird-mosquito transmission and more what we call spillover infections to people,” Dr. Scott Weaver tells Grist for this article on how a changing climate is contributing to the spread of West Nile Virus.

  • How Stress, Burnout and Labor Shortages Affect Anesthesia Care

    Growing demand for surgical procedures to treat chronic pain and other medical conditions is contributing to shortages of anesthesia care providers, according to an op/ed in Anesthesiology. UTMB’s Dr. Amr Abouleish was the lead author of the op/ed and told the Pain News Network that “the labor supply-demand imbalance for anesthesia clinicians has reached critical levels, with major implications for safe and effective patient care."

  • Exploring the many health benefits of sunlight

    Dr. Hasan Yasin’s latest column explores the various health benefits associated with sunlight exposure. From mood to production of vitamin D and other positive effects, sunlight has many benefits, Yasin writes.

  • Valar Labs Announces Validation of First Histology-based Test to Predict Response to BCG in Bladder Cancer

    “Accurately identifying patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer that will not respond to BCG is essential so they can receive the treatment that is best suited for them,” said UTMB’s Dr. Stephen B. Williams in this article about a newly developed histology-based test designed to predict how bladder cancer patients will respond to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment.

  • Did Columbus bring syphilis to Europe

    There has been much speculation among scientists and historians about where the first syphilis epidemic in the late 15th-century Europe came from but new evidence may help solve the mystery, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their Medical Discovery News column.

  • How love and social connections keep us well

    Do you realize that loneliness and social isolation are as bad for your health as smoking? Loneliness can increase the risk of stroke and heart attacks and promote hypertension, obesity, diabetes, dementia, depression and other mental health problems, writes Dr. Victor S. Sierpina in his column for the Daily News.

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