• 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    UTMB Named one of Best Hospitals for Maternity Care

    U.S. News & World Report named the University of Texas Medical Branch a 2025 High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care. The award is the highest a hospital can earn as part of U.S. News’ Best Hospitals for Maternity Care annual study.

  • 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.

  • Are mental illnesses transmissible to others?

    Research from a large study in Finland has shown that some mental illnesses may be transmissible among adolescents, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column.

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