• Pregnancy and Aging

    Getting pregnant can make you older write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their Medical Discovery News column. New reports find that pregnancy can accelerate biological aging in women.

  • Can Stress Cause Swollen Lymph Nodes? Expert Immunity Doctors Respond

    “Stress does not directly cause swollen lymph nodes,” UTMB’s Dr. Samuel Mathis tells They Healthy for this article on swollen lymph nodes and what to do about them. “However, stress can lead to swollen lymph nodes by affecting the immune system.”

  • 5-year-old battles rare kidney disease

    Reporter Melissa Wilson with Fox 26 met with the family of Olin Lewis, a 5-year-old diagnosed with a rare kidney condition. Olin and his family travel from Katy to the UTMB Clear Lake Campus regularly to see a team specialized in kidney care. It was UTMB Family Nurse Practitioner Ashley Moses who suggested the family come to Clear Lake to get the specialist care their child needed.

  • Low back pain and what you need to know

    Lower back pain is one of the most common pain complaints Dr. Hassan Yasin hears in his clinic. In his column, Yasin provides some natural ways reduce the risk and severity of back pain.

  • Possible Future HIV Cure

    While it is no longer a death sentence, there is still no cure for HIV write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column. But the development of gene editing may offer a way of removing or inactivating HIV in the body.

  • Dr. Jennifer Raley ,Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Director of the School of Medicine's Family Medicine Clerkship and Medical Student Education Program

    Professor, student group honored at national conference

    During the 2024 American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri, the University of Texas Medical Branch earned two honors—one for professor and clinician Dr. Jennifer Raley’s efforts to support the institution’s Family Medicine Interest Group and another for the group itself.

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