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.
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.
KTRH published the news release on UTMB’s latest research on teen violence. UTMB’s Dr. Elizabeth Baumler and Dr. Jeff Temple are quoted.
The city of Houston is developing a firearm dashboard in an effort to make the city safer and is partnering with UTMB’s Dr. Bindi J. Naik-Mathuria—who will lead coordination efforts with area trauma centers.
UTMB’s Dr. Gulshan Sharma is listed among the 130 chief medical officers to know by Becker’s Hospital Review.
An opinion piece written by UTMB’s Dr. Peter Cram is quoted in this Healthcare Innovation column on the problems faced by physician owned hospitals. “The Federal government's restrictions on physician-owned hospitals create an unfair playing field that protects the interests of powerful hospitals,” wrote Cram and his coauthors.
There is no connection between rising COVID-19 cases and the electoral process. The U.S. has seen rises in COVID-19 cases that coincide with election seasons in November — but they have also occurred during the summer, according to UTMB’s Dr. Janak Patel.
Many patients with mild traumatic brain injury have central sensitization, a pain that requires a different therapeutic approach than nociceptic pain, according to a study by UTMB student Christopher File, BSA, and colleagues.
“Part of the story about the Hispanic Paradox,” said Kyriakos S. Markides, a professor of aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, “is that the non-Hispanic white population is not doing as well as it should.” Markides coined the term “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox” in a 1986 paper showing Hispanics in the American Southwest lived as long, or longer, than white people.
The number of West Nile virus cases will vary greatly from year to year. “The effect of climate on vector-borne diseases is very complicated,” said Scott Weaver, PhD, director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Warmer temperatures are extending the geographic distribution of mosquitoes and ticks in the US. But rates of human disease also depend on the habitats and migratory patterns of animal hosts that harbor the pathogens that infect mosquitoes and ticks. “These are all being affected by climate change,” Weaver said.
“The medical establishment, even within the field of OB-GYN, does not have a good understanding of pseudocyesis,” UTMB’s Dr. Shannon M. Clark tells National Geographic. Understanding what’s happening in the body of a woman with pseudocyesis would help treat the condition and reduce the stigma, Clark says.
Although hospitals are required by law to publicly post prices for their services, it remains difficult for the public to get reliable information on what those services will cost. That’s the overall finding of a paper published Sept. 18 in in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine based on research out of the University of Texas Medical Branch.
When a lifelong UTMB patient with a rare genetic condition found out she was pregnant, she knew exactly where to go to get the care she could trust for her and her daughter-on-the-way. Nearly two years later, both mom and daughter continue to see UTMB Health specialists and they are healthy and thriving.
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch have uncovered a promising connection between certain immune-suppressing drugs and a lower risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. This research could impact how these devastating brain disorders are treated.
To prevent sepsis, which claims approximately 11 million lives each year, early awareness is key.
In their latest column, Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel write about scientists have been studying members of a large extended family in Colombia who develop early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in their 40s or earlier.
Dr. Jeff Temple shares tips for having meaningful conversations and check-ins with your children after school and every day.
Study found that teens with a history of adolescent relationship abuse who participated in the Fourth R program, a 21-session healthy relationships curriculum delivered in middle or high school health classes, were less likely to recommit acts of violence years after the intervention.
The people of Galveston County should support Dr. Jochen Reiser and hope he succeeds, writes Dolph Tillotson in the Galveston County Daily News. Reiser met with the newspaper’s editorial board this week to discuss the newspaper’s concerns and Reiser’s views for the future of UTMB.
When student athlete Priest Simpson injured his leg, the UTMB Health Sports Medicine team worked hard to repair the damage and get him back on the field after a full recovery.