UTMB News Articles

UTMB’s Dr. Peter Melby helped explain cutaneous leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease newly discovered in Texas, to NPR’s Goats and Soda. The infection may start out looking like a little pimple Melby said, "But over time, weeks and months, it can grow into a chronic ulcer-type lesion. It's not life threatening, but it can be disfiguring, especially if it's on the face." This story was shared by NPR affiliated stations across the nation.

UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple was one of the experts consulted for this story on loneliness. Temple provided tips on how to be alone, how to build relationships and when to ask for help.

UTMB and TSU researchers will be using human-centered AI to better understand the social and cultural barriers patients face when getting cancer treatment thanks to a $1 million grant from NIH. “Such social factors, also called social determinants of health, are well-known but have been difficult to analyze and interpret despite the use of powerful machine learning methods,” said UTMB’s Dr. Suresh Bhavnani.

The Houston Chronicle reports on UTMB’s reorganization of the executive leadership team. “Fundamentally, how we run our hospital and how we run our outpatient practice, and what we need from a technology perspective, is going to be represented more by physician leadership,” UTMB’s Dr. Jochen Reiser told the Chronicle. This news was also reported in Becker’s Hospital Review, the Galveston County Daily News and on i45Now.

UTMB’s Dr. Megan Berman and Dr. Richard Rupp write about the possible side effects that come along with some vaccines and the possible difference the more traditional Novavax covid vaccine may make.

Dr. Samuel Mathis writes about the plant-based options for diabetes control in this week’s column for the Daily News.

New research has made advances in achieving hibernation or suspended animation of animals and that could be a boon to long space flights, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in the latest edition of Medical Discovery News.

“Houston has one of the … unfortunately, leading the country in youth gun violence. And it’s increased in recent years,” UTMB’s Jeff Temple told KPRC. Temple and researchers at UTMB will be able to study ways to reduce gun violence thanks to a $2 million grant.

Settlers in the 1800s suffered from a mysterious milk sickness write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column. The mystery was solved by a woman named Anna Pierce, though she was not given credit.

The Galveston County Daily News, Oct. 18, 2023 The good news keeps rolling in write Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp in this week’s Vaccine Smarts column. The CDC recently recommended a shot to protect babies from hospitalization due to RSV.

UTMB’s Dr. Hasan Yasin takes a deep dive into triglycerides, saturated fat and unsaturated fat in this column.

Dr. Karen Szauter, assistant dean in the Office of Educational Affairs at UTMB, was named a recipient of the 2023 Association of American Medical Colleges Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, which recognizes individuals and institutions that have made outstanding contributions in medical education, research, clinical care, and community engagement.

UTMB was named among the top 100 hospitals in Texas by Newsweek. This ranking of America's Best-In-State Hospitals 2024 recognizes 600 leading hospitals across the nation, according to Newsweek.

Reader’s Digest sought out UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple to analyze what readers’ junk drawers said about them.

The October edition of Health Care Unmasked presented by UTMB Health, features UTMB Health plastic surgeon Dr. Petro Konofaos and breast tattoo specialist Jill Resendez.

“Adding an attitude of play is about trying to make things more interesting and meaningful," UTMB’s Dr. Elizabeth Lyons told AARP for an article on embracing a playful attitude toward exercise. "It can involve discovery, exploration, and spontaneity. There’s something unique about play that brings autonomy—you want to do it for its own sake.”