Beyond weight loss: Bariatric Surgery team transforms patients' lives January 27, 2025 • 2:05 p.m. by Chloe Chapel with the Community Impact Storytelling team Did you know the UTMB Health Bariatrics team includes a dedicated dietitian and social worker to support patients on their journeys? They also host monthly support groups for pre-and-post-surgery individuals. Clinicians share struggles with PMAD January 22, 2025 • 5:31 p.m. In an effort to end the stigma around maternal mental health, UTMB Health clinicians share their journeys battling perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, also known as PMAD, which can present as conditions such as psychosis, anxiety, and depression. The University of Texas Medical Branch takes global stage at Davos to champion brain health January 22, 2025 • 12:30 p.m. The University of Texas Medical Branch is making waves this week at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, by highlighting the critical importance of brain health on a global scale. 'We're trying to see how mechanobiology could help researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic risks' January 2, 2025 • 1:27 p.m. "In this study, we're trying to see how mechanobiology could help researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic risks, especially the risk of arterial thrombosis that are closely associated with cardiovascular diseases," says Dr. Yunfeng Chen, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Texas Medical Branch. COPD patients find healing, community through harmonicas December 23, 2024 • 11:29 a.m. UTMB patients with COPD are eligible to participate in the free support group that meets monthly in Galveston. Dr. Rakez Kayed: leading the fight against neurodegenerative diseases one protein at a time December 19, 2024 • 2:09 p.m. "Science is a journey. You might start with a belief or an idea, but ultimately, you go where the science takes you," says Dr. Rakez Kayed, Professor of the Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders and John Sealy Chair for Parkinson's Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Local mom shares bariatric weight loss journey December 19, 2024 • 1:11 p.m. UTMB Health Bariatrics patient Felicity Cunningham joined Houston Moms to share her journey of losing half her body weight after having bariatrics surgery at UTMB Health. New name, same great content—monthly video series gets a rebrand December 17, 2024 • 4:27 p.m. Health Care Unmasked—a monthly video interview series that features health and life science experts from UTMB dissecting topics with series host and owner of i45Now, TJ Aulds—will now be known as UTMB Health Insights. UTMB, Wyss Center to collaborate to advance neuroscience research, technologies December 16, 2024 • 5:04 p.m. The University of Texas Medical Branch, patients in our local communities and the broader Houston-Galveston region could eventually have access to the most advanced neurological medical technologies thanks to a collaboration between UTMB and the Wyss Center, a world leading neuroengineering and neurotechnology research non-profit. Mental health benefits from nature December 16, 2024 • 3:06 p.m. UTMB Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kimberly Gushanas shares insights on how time outside can impact one's existential, spiritual and emotional wellbeing. The researcher also shares tips for those looking to increase their exposure to nature. About The University of Texas Medical BranchThe first academic health center in Texas opened its doors in 1891 and today has four campuses, five health sciences schools, seven institutes for advanced study, a research enterprise that includes one of only two national laboratories dedicated to the safe study of infectious threats to human health, a Level 1 Trauma Center and a health system offering a full range of primary and specialized medical services throughout the Texas Gulf Coast region. UTMB is an institution in The University of Texas System and a member of the Texas Medical Center. Search Categories Awards & Accolades Education Faculty/Staff News Health Care In The News Innovations News Releases Top News UTMB Research Contact Media Team UTMB Experts
Beyond weight loss: Bariatric Surgery team transforms patients' lives January 27, 2025 • 2:05 p.m. by Chloe Chapel with the Community Impact Storytelling team Did you know the UTMB Health Bariatrics team includes a dedicated dietitian and social worker to support patients on their journeys? They also host monthly support groups for pre-and-post-surgery individuals.
Clinicians share struggles with PMAD January 22, 2025 • 5:31 p.m. In an effort to end the stigma around maternal mental health, UTMB Health clinicians share their journeys battling perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, also known as PMAD, which can present as conditions such as psychosis, anxiety, and depression.
The University of Texas Medical Branch takes global stage at Davos to champion brain health January 22, 2025 • 12:30 p.m. The University of Texas Medical Branch is making waves this week at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, by highlighting the critical importance of brain health on a global scale.
'We're trying to see how mechanobiology could help researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic risks' January 2, 2025 • 1:27 p.m. "In this study, we're trying to see how mechanobiology could help researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic risks, especially the risk of arterial thrombosis that are closely associated with cardiovascular diseases," says Dr. Yunfeng Chen, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Texas Medical Branch.
COPD patients find healing, community through harmonicas December 23, 2024 • 11:29 a.m. UTMB patients with COPD are eligible to participate in the free support group that meets monthly in Galveston.
Dr. Rakez Kayed: leading the fight against neurodegenerative diseases one protein at a time December 19, 2024 • 2:09 p.m. "Science is a journey. You might start with a belief or an idea, but ultimately, you go where the science takes you," says Dr. Rakez Kayed, Professor of the Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders and John Sealy Chair for Parkinson's Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Local mom shares bariatric weight loss journey December 19, 2024 • 1:11 p.m. UTMB Health Bariatrics patient Felicity Cunningham joined Houston Moms to share her journey of losing half her body weight after having bariatrics surgery at UTMB Health.
New name, same great content—monthly video series gets a rebrand December 17, 2024 • 4:27 p.m. Health Care Unmasked—a monthly video interview series that features health and life science experts from UTMB dissecting topics with series host and owner of i45Now, TJ Aulds—will now be known as UTMB Health Insights.
UTMB, Wyss Center to collaborate to advance neuroscience research, technologies December 16, 2024 • 5:04 p.m. The University of Texas Medical Branch, patients in our local communities and the broader Houston-Galveston region could eventually have access to the most advanced neurological medical technologies thanks to a collaboration between UTMB and the Wyss Center, a world leading neuroengineering and neurotechnology research non-profit.
Mental health benefits from nature December 16, 2024 • 3:06 p.m. UTMB Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kimberly Gushanas shares insights on how time outside can impact one's existential, spiritual and emotional wellbeing. The researcher also shares tips for those looking to increase their exposure to nature.