• Red graphic with white handwritten-style text reading “Make yourself a priority” and smaller text about heart health. Logos for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association appear along the bottom.

    Self-Care for a Healthier Heart

    February is American Heart Month and there's a lot you can do to protect your heart and stay healthy.

  • Three images displayed side by side: a clinician in a white coat portrait on the left, a parent holding a newborn with medical tubing in the center, and another clinician in a white coat portrait on the right

    UTMB featured in Community Impact

    Patient Taylor Thurstonson recently shared how UTMB OBGYNs kept her and her baby boy safe during an unexpected 30-week delivery via c-section.

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    How to select an OBGYN

    UTMB OBGYNs Dr. Joyce Muruthi & Dr. Kimberlyn Robinson share their tips for choosing an OBGYN. Their patient, Taylor Thurstonson, joined the chat to share her story.

  • Large Carnival Cruise Line ship docked at the Port of Galveston, showing the white vessel with red funnel and lifeboats along the side, representing cruise travel supported by a new medical consultation partnership with UTMB Health

    Making Waves with Medicine

    UTMB Health partners with Carnival Cruise Lines to provide the expertise of UTMB doctors via phone call or video chat when specialized care is needed at sea.

  • Close-up view of an oral surgery procedure in progress, with gloved hands using surgical instruments inside a patient’s mouth while wearing protective blue surgical gowns in a clinical operating setting

    Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: Treating Oral, Head and Neck Cancers

    The physicians in UTMB Health’s Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery provide expertise that extends beyond impacted wisdom teeth and dental implants—they treat patients with head, neck and mouth cancers, injuries due to facial trauma and a wide array of other surgical needs related to the face and mouth.

  • Health and wellness with UTMB Health and Houston Moms

    Covid Vaccine and Kids 5+

    Dr. Elizabeth Rodriguez Lien shares what parents need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine and the 5+ population.

  • Promotional graphic for National Influenza Vaccination Week showing a couple standing outdoors beside bold text reading “We get it to help #fightflu,” “December 5–11,” and “Get your flu shot today,” with a CDC logo in the corner

    5 Myths About the Flu Vaccine

    This week (Dec. 5-11) is National Influenza Vaccination Week, which is an annual observance to remind everyone six months of age and older to get their annual flu vaccine. We hear many myths about the flu vaccine, and we’re here to bust them.

  • Close-up of hands covered in soap lather being rinsed under running water from a sink faucet, illustrating proper handwashing over a white basin

    Hand Hygiene 101: Preventing Disease

    National Handwashing Awareness Week (Dec. 1-7) serves as an annual reminder to practice proper hand hygiene to curb the spread of disease.


About The University of Texas Medical Branch

The 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.

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