• A person holds a tissue to the nose while standing against a light-colored background, illustrating symptoms commonly associated with seasonal allergies such as congestion or sneezing

    5 Tips to Combat Allergy Season

    Here are five tips for enjoying the season and avoiding those dreaded warm-weather allergies.

  • Meet Dr. Joyce Muruthi

    Learn more about Dr. Joyce Muruthi, an Obstetrics & Gynecology provider at UTMB Health Women's HealthCare clinic in Friendswood.

  • Complex Collaboration Yields New Quality of Life for Patient

    Three days before Rebecca Tipton’s scheduled surgery, she had a moment of worry, concerned that the meticulous plan her doctors developed to treat her urinary incontinence would not be successful. A longtime patient of UTMB Health, Tipton knew her case was more complicated than most.

  • Person sitting on a bed holding the abdomen in a bedroom setting

    A Comprehensive Approach to Hernias

    Abdominal wall hernias, including groin hernias, can come in a wide array of shapes and forms. Some develop primarily from wear and tear of the abdominal wall, whereas others may develop at the incisions from prior surgeries. They do share one thing in common - they are all mechanical defects of the abdominal wall musculature with the tendency to progress with time.

  • Clinician in a medical lab coat reviews multiple brain scan images on large computer monitors in a clinical setting, illustrating neurological evaluation and epilepsy care

    What Patients and their Doctors Need to Know About Epilepsy

    Epilepsy is another term for “seizure disorders.” Seizures are caused by disruption of electronic communications between neurons. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some point in their lives. It is not contagious, is not a psychiatric illness and is not a developmental disability.


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.

Categories