Five University of Texas Medical Branch primary investigators received competitive grant awards totaling $1,722,433 from the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative for six research projects.

HealthDay highlighted a study led by UTMB’s Dr. Monique Pappadis that found that low health literacy is associated with worse perceived physical health and greater depressive symptoms among adults with traumatic brain injury.

There are an estimated one to four million cases of cholera worldwide annually and as many as 143,000 people die of the disease each year, write Drs. Richard Rupp and Megan Berman in this week’s Vaccine Smarts column. There is a vaccine approved in the U.S., Vaxchora, but it can be hard to find.

In this week’s column, Dr. Hasan Yasin shares insights from a recent medical conference where the topics of marijuana and psychedelics use in medicine garnered lots of attention.

Integrating radiology and pathology could produce hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and improve patient care UTMB’s Dr. Eric Walser and Dr. Christopher Zahner explained at a meeting of the Radiology Business Management Association. “We need to put diagnostics first. Right now, we are the backseat drivers. We need to become the front-seat drivers,” Walser said at the meeting.

There are many reasons why measles has made a comeback in the U.S. but one thing is certain: COVID-19 is not to blame. “There’s no evidence that covid—or the vaccine—is adversely affecting people’s immune systems,” UTMB’s Dr. Richard Rupp told Gizmodo.