UTMB investigators win Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award October 17, 2024 • 11:36 a.m. The Gulf Coast Consortia recently named two University of Texas Medical Branch researchers recipients of the John S. Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award which supports research in the quantitative biomedical sciences with research seed grants. Mobile mammography program makes screenings accessible to women around the community October 17, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. To better serve women in the community, particularly uninsured and underinsured women, UTMB Health launched the Mobile Mammography program in 1999 and has been providing easier access to breast cancer screenings for women who need them. New research unveils the brain microbiome October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. One of the most fascinating and promising topics in medicine and research today is the gut microbiome, writes Dr. Hasan Yasin in his column in the Daily News. Scientists have now even found a microbiome inside the human brain, he writes. How to protect your baby during RSV season October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. RSV season is here and Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp discuss the latest tools available to parents and health care providers to keep babies and young children safe. Debate erupts about how to deploy experimental Marburg drugs and vaccines in Rwanda October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. “This is great news,” Dr. Thomas Geisbert tells Science about a recently announced clinical trial for treatments of Marburg virus disease launched in Rwanda. “Hopefully, lives can be saved as a result of this trial. UTMB researchers target improved locomotor functions in subjects with spinal cord injuries October 15, 2024 • 2:15 p.m. Using bumetanide, a diuretic drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch were able to protect excitatory neurons from the damage caused by long-term swelling in spinal cord injuries. ‘Don't let your non-insured status stop you from getting checked--UTMB will help.’ October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. Ella Thibodeaux skipped her mammogram one year, the next year she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Heart disease often next fight after cancer October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. Rev. Dr. Tammy Isaac, a chaplain at UTMB’s Angleton Danbury Campus, writes about her mother’s fight against breast cancer. “The battle with cancer doesn’t end with remission — it’s a lifelong journey of survival,” Isaac writes. A promising new male contraceptive October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. New research is delivering a promising advance on a male hormonal contraceptive, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column. Pioneer researcher Dr. Jay Levy to keynote HIV Symposium October 14, 2024 • 10:02 a.m. Dr. Jay Levy, a trailblazer in HIV research, delivers the keynote address at the upcoming University of Texas Medical Branch HIV Symposium on October 15 at 9:15 a.m. 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
UTMB investigators win Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award October 17, 2024 • 11:36 a.m. The Gulf Coast Consortia recently named two University of Texas Medical Branch researchers recipients of the John S. Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award which supports research in the quantitative biomedical sciences with research seed grants.
Mobile mammography program makes screenings accessible to women around the community October 17, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. To better serve women in the community, particularly uninsured and underinsured women, UTMB Health launched the Mobile Mammography program in 1999 and has been providing easier access to breast cancer screenings for women who need them.
New research unveils the brain microbiome October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. One of the most fascinating and promising topics in medicine and research today is the gut microbiome, writes Dr. Hasan Yasin in his column in the Daily News. Scientists have now even found a microbiome inside the human brain, he writes.
How to protect your baby during RSV season October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. RSV season is here and Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp discuss the latest tools available to parents and health care providers to keep babies and young children safe.
Debate erupts about how to deploy experimental Marburg drugs and vaccines in Rwanda October 16, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. “This is great news,” Dr. Thomas Geisbert tells Science about a recently announced clinical trial for treatments of Marburg virus disease launched in Rwanda. “Hopefully, lives can be saved as a result of this trial.
UTMB researchers target improved locomotor functions in subjects with spinal cord injuries October 15, 2024 • 2:15 p.m. Using bumetanide, a diuretic drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch were able to protect excitatory neurons from the damage caused by long-term swelling in spinal cord injuries.
‘Don't let your non-insured status stop you from getting checked--UTMB will help.’ October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. Ella Thibodeaux skipped her mammogram one year, the next year she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Heart disease often next fight after cancer October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. Rev. Dr. Tammy Isaac, a chaplain at UTMB’s Angleton Danbury Campus, writes about her mother’s fight against breast cancer. “The battle with cancer doesn’t end with remission — it’s a lifelong journey of survival,” Isaac writes.
A promising new male contraceptive October 15, 2024 • 12:00 a.m. New research is delivering a promising advance on a male hormonal contraceptive, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column.
Pioneer researcher Dr. Jay Levy to keynote HIV Symposium October 14, 2024 • 10:02 a.m. Dr. Jay Levy, a trailblazer in HIV research, delivers the keynote address at the upcoming University of Texas Medical Branch HIV Symposium on October 15 at 9:15 a.m.