UTMB News Articles

  • Tis the Season of Flea-Borne Typhus

    For insights into future spread of flea-borne typhus, Medpage Today turned to UTMB infectious diseases and Rickettsia expert Dr. Lucas Blanton.

  • 5 Tips to Help You Build Resilience, According to a Psychologist

    UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple shared tips with LiveStrong.com on how to build resilience. "Keep in mind that resilience does not mean you won't experience stress or trauma," Temple says. "It just equips you to adapt to and handle these situations more effectively."

  • 'Dear old Golden Rule Days'

    Dr. Sally Robinson writes about how parents can understand what educational choices are available and what is best for their child in her column.

  • It did not pay to be downwind

    Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel write about the fallout from the first nuclear bomb test in New Mexico in 1945.

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    The cumulative effect of annual flu shots

    Did you know annual flu shots can have a cumulative effect that can protect you beyond the current flu season? Pediatrician Dr. Manuela Murray shares her first-hand experience with the proven theory.

  • Sports Injury Clinic

    Student athletes and sports injuries

    From concussions to injuries that may require surgery, Dr. Stacy Leung covers what to do if your student athlete is injured playing or practicing their favorite sport.

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    UTMB Health Receives CHIME Digital Health ‘Most Wired’ Award

    The University of Texas Medical Branch received a “Most Wired Award” for 2023 in acute care and ambulatory surveys conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), a professional organization focused on health care information technology, for UTMB’s use of technology to improve patient care.

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    UTMB heals patient; gains a grateful team member

    Nearly two years after a head-on collision forced her to learn how to walk again, Tara Williams is able to help other UTMB patients as a patient service specialist in Angleton. “I’m so grateful to be here with UTMB,”

  • Software Platform Boosts Financial Aid for Specialty Patients in Texas Health System

    “Patients’ out-of-pocket expenses for medications, especially specialty medications, have been on the rise for the last decade or so,” UTMB’s Vinay Eapen told Pharmacy Practice News. But thanks to a digital patient assistance platform, UTMB has been able to enroll patients faster into financial assistance programs for specialty medications and increase the amount of financial aid awarded.

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    Prostate cancer treatment options

    Surgeons Dr. Stephen Williams and Dr. Laith Alzweri share insights and information on prostate cancer and its potential treatment options.

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    New research sheds light on the potential cause of diabetic kidney disease

    For years, researchers have worked to understand why some people with diabetes get kidney disease while others do not. A paper published in today’s edition of Science Translational Medicine may have uncovered the reason: the existence of a new type of diabetes.

  • Gut Instincts: How to Trust Your Intuition and Start Making Smarter Decisions

    Trusting your gut means making decisions based mainly, or solely, on an instinctive feeling you have, says UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple. “When you have external data to inform your decisions, always go with the data. But for personal decisions, trust your instinct—science shows that it’s right more often than not,” Temple told Reader’s Digest.

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    UTMB health tackles physical and mental aspects of athletic injuries

    If your athlete experiences an accident or injury, know that UTMB Health experts are equipped to help with the mental and physical aspects of recovery every step of the way.

  • Houston organizations snag chunk of recently announced $49M cancer research grant funding

    UTMB was one of a three institutions in the Houston area to receive funding for cancer treatment and prevention from the state agency, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Almost $2.5 million was for expansion of a program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that supplies HPV vaccinations for new mothers.

  • UTMB gets rare $2M grant to study gun violence in the Houston region

    UTMB researchers will be able to expand their work into gun-related violence thanks to a $2 million grant from the CDC. UTMB’s Jeff Temple told the Chronicle that the study would be nonpartisan—focused exclusively on finding ways to reduce injuries and deaths from firearms—and focused on southeast Texas.

  • New insights revealed on depression, anxiety

    Current research suggests the inflammatory response may provoke or exacerbate anxiety and depression in many individuals write Dr. Samuel Mathis and Dr. Hasan Yasin. The inflammatory process leads to inflammation in brain tissues via immune-mediated pathways, which may give rise to increasingly disordered thoughts and feelings, they write.

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