Trusting your gut means making decisions based mainly, or solely, on an instinctive feeling you have, says UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple. “When you have external data to inform your decisions, always go with the data. But for personal decisions, trust your instinct—science shows that it’s right more often than not,” Temple told Reader’s Digest.

UTMB was one of a three institutions in the Houston area to receive funding for cancer treatment and prevention from the state agency, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Almost $2.5 million was for expansion of a program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that supplies HPV vaccinations for new mothers.

UTMB researchers will be able to expand their work into gun-related violence thanks to a $2 million grant from the CDC. UTMB’s Jeff Temple told the Chronicle that the study would be nonpartisan—focused exclusively on finding ways to reduce injuries and deaths from firearms—and focused on southeast Texas.

Current research suggests the inflammatory response may provoke or exacerbate anxiety and depression in many individuals write Dr. Samuel Mathis and Dr. Hasan Yasin. The inflammatory process leads to inflammation in brain tissues via immune-mediated pathways, which may give rise to increasingly disordered thoughts and feelings, they write.

KTRH published the news release on UTMB’s latest research on teen violence. UTMB’s Dr. Elizabeth Baumler and Dr. Jeff Temple are quoted.

The city of Houston is developing a firearm dashboard in an effort to make the city safer and is partnering with UTMB’s Dr. Bindi J. Naik-Mathuria—who will lead coordination efforts with area trauma centers.

UTMB’s Dr. Gulshan Sharma is listed among the 130 chief medical officers to know by Becker’s Hospital Review.