“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.

“A UTMB Galveston pathologist can now use AI to help diagnose prostate cancer,” reporter Haley Hernandez tells KPRC viewers. KPRC featured UTMB’s first in the state AI assisted prostate diagnoses process on their news broadcast. The next step, Hernandez reports, is using the tool for breast biopsies.

Becker’s highlighted a UTMB study that finds that patients using GLP-1s may face higher risks of complications and readmissions following total shoulder arthroplasty.

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.

Asking for help can be scary but studies show being aware of our limitations can boost mental health and resilience writes Dr. Samuel Mathis.

“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.

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.

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.