• '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.

  • 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.

  • image of painted ceiling tile that features a crab and a star fish on a beach facing the sun, surrounded by water. Palm trees are also included as are the words "UTMB" and "DAMIAN 1-22-14"

    Ceiling Tile Program helps patients heal through art

    Children facing extended hospital stays can design and create ceiling tiles that are later placed throughout the hallways of the unit, creating a comforting environment for past, current, and future patients.

  • New AI-based tool helps diagnose prostate cancer

    UTMB’s Department of Pathology is the first academic healthcare center in Texas to add an artificial-intelligence based tool to help in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, reports the Daily News.

  • Who gets to live to 100? The answer may surprise you.

    A new study finds that that Black octogenarians in the United States have significantly better odds of living to 100 than their white counterparts. UTMB’s Dr. Kyriakos Markides tells the Globe that the study confirms and adds to the research he’s done on Hispanic aging.

  • What I learned from a year of gratefulness

    Research supports that gratefulness offers extensive health benefits, writes Dr. Victor S. Sierpina in the Daily News. Benefits of gratefulness include improved mood, better socialization, stress reduction, quality sleep, reduced pain and inflammation, stronger immunity, and lowered risk of cardiovascular and neurocognitive problems.

  • 180+ chief medical officers to know | 2025

    UTMB’s Dr. Gulshan Sharma was named one of the chief medical officers to know by Becker’s Hospital Review. “The health system went from earning 3-star to 5-star rankings on Vizient's quality and accountability study under Dr. Sharma's leadership,” Becker’s reports.

  • E. Coli Outbreaks & Factory Farms in the U.S. Are Largely Inextricable

    In the last half of 2024 alone, E. coli has been found in ground beef, carrots, onions, walnuts and cheese, causing at least 186 illnesses, one death and several recalls, reports Sentient Health. UTMB’s Dr. Alfredo Torres tells Sentient Health that E. coli lives in many places, but the “Big Six” subtypes that sicken humans are all found primarily in the bodies of cattle. “So when [the cows defecate], the fecal matter is contaminated with this organism, and anything that gets in contact with the manure, or water contaminated with the fecal matter, can get contaminated with the bacteria,” Torres said. This story was also published in The Good Men Project.

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