The University of Texas Medical Branch had seven representatives among the 40 under 40 listing for 2023 in The Galveston County Daily News. The newspaper asked the public to nominate people who were 40 or younger and live or work in Galveston County. A panel picked its top 40 for the list, including these seven people from UTMB: Megan Cazares, associate director of accreditation; Rawan Harirah, business manager; C. Tyler Morrison, exercise physiologist; Christopher Richter, medical student; Maria San Andrés, assistant professor in pediatrics; Tracy Tang, medical student; and Vivian Tat, pre-doctoral research fellow.

Five schools in the Houston area have landed $10.8 million in research grants from the Houston-based Welch Foundation. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is one.

One out of every six people has a headache right now. Dr. Samuel Mathis wrote about ways to prevent headaches and ways to get rid of them.

Mpox cases peaked in August 2022 and have decreased to just a handful of new cases each week, wrote Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp in their Vaccine Smarts column. “Much of the speculation and fear surrounding the disease has proved unfounded.”

“Helping families to cope with the worries about climate change is to have a plan for the various disasters that might affect the family: floods, hurricanes, wildfires, epidemics and even freezing,” wrote Dr. Sally Robinson in her column.

In Medical Discovery News, Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel wrote about a possible temporary contraceptive that could be taken only as needed, allowing men to make day-to-day decisions about their fertility.