Wayne Keathley, executive vice president and chief operating officer at UTMB, joined a group of local health care experts this week for a conference on the state of the industry in Galveston County.

Mental health conditions are one of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas, The Daily News reported. UTMB’s Dr. Kimberly Grayson spoke to the newspaper about “the baby blues” and postpartum depression. “It’s a lot more common than I think a lot of people realize, because most people think of it as a very positive time, especially in those first couple weeks postpartum,” Grayson said.

UTMB’s Dr. Misha Syed coauthored this essay on the gender disparity in ophthalmology. While things are improving, barriers still exist that prevent women from reaching senior ranks and leadership positions, she writes. “To help our peers in academia advance in their careers and grow in a way that is more structured and organized, we founded Women Professors of Ophthalmology (WPO), a faculty development initiative within the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology,” write Syed and co-author Dr. Rukhsana Mirza of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Birds are the primary natural reservoir for West Nile virus, and mosquitoes become infected by feeding on infected birds but it does occasionally spill over into humans, UTMB’s Dr. Scott Weaver told Today for a story on the death of a Dallas woman due to West Nile. “It is still relatively early in the transmission year for this virus. We're starting to get into the heart of it, so it’s pretty concerning that we’re seeing so many cases already ... (and) there's a lot more to come,” Weaver said.

UTMB’s Dr. Samuel Mathis helps explain the types of insomnia one can suffer from in this article by yahoo!life.

"I think one of the major keys to having a high-performing revenue cycle is the relationship between revenue cycle and operations," UTMB’s Jamie Bailey tells Becker’s. UTMB was one of 17 providers to receive the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2024 MAP Award for high performance in revenue cycle.

A new study lends weight to fears that more livestock workers have gotten the bird flu than has been reported. “I am very confident there are more people being infected than we know about,” said Gregory Gray, the infectious disease researcher at UTMB who led the study, posted online Wednesday and under review to be published in a leading infectious disease journal. “Largely, that’s because our surveillance has been so poor.” This news was also reported in Ars Technica, Oregon Capital Chronicle, News Tribune and many other outlets.

A team of UTMB scientists has achieved a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research by developing a nasal spray designed to treat the disease and other forms of dementia, reports The Daily News. “This nasal spray approach opens new avenues for non-invasive delivery of tau therapeutic antibodies directly to the brain, and it holds promise for many neurodegenerative diseases,” said UTMB’s Dr. Rakez Kayed.

UTMB students nominated Dr. Jennifer Raley for the Joyce Jeardeau Memorial Award in recognition of her “planning, detailed organization, passion, and vision for the FMIG.” Raley will accept the award at the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students in August at the same time the UTMB Family Medicine Interest Group wins a Program of Excellence Award for the sixth year in a row.

“From a health perspective, a flotilla of bubbles acts as a natural stress reliever, bringing delight, distraction and even abstraction into our lives,” writes Dr. Victor S. Sierpina in his Daily News column. If life is getting stressful, Sierpina writes, maybe you need a bubble break.