VaccineSmarts-Frightening diseases reveal growing pains in medicine
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 19, 2014
By Richard Rupp and Bridget Hawkins
Dear VaccineSmarts,
The media is abuzz with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy-Recommendations about dealing with children’s head injuries
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 19, 2014
By Sally Robinson
What should you do if your child has a head injury but does not lose consciousness? This is what is recommended by the American... more »
Inside UTMB-UTMB forges ahead
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 18, 2014
Blocker Burn Unit reverified
The American Burn Association Burn Center Verification Committee has approved the UTMB Blocker Burn Unit for reverificat... more »
Medical Discovery News-Research looks at sugar sensors in the digestive system
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 18, 2014
By Norbert Herzog and David Niesel
Your tongue isn’t the only part your body that can taste sweetness.
Three years ago, scientists discovered... more »
Senior patients participate in UTMB study on reducing rehospitalization
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 18, 2014
By Isabel Pen
Marie Butera sits down in a straight chair in the middle of her living room and holds a long red strip of elastic material stretched... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy: Along with the cold fronts comes flu season
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 18, 2014
In this week’s Keeping Kids Healthy column by UTMB’s Dr. Sally Robinson: Protect your family against the flu with vaccination. The 2013... more »
You need to know about coronary artery disease
Galveston County Daily NewsNovember 18, 2014
M. Theron “Bujo” Waddell, a professor at Galveston College, details his UTMB experience in this guest column: Dr. Emmanuel Amulraj and... more »
The states where fewer kids get the HPV vaccine have higher rates of cervical cancer
ThibkProgressNovember 18, 2014
The states with the lowest rates of HPV vaccination are the same ones with the highest rates of cervical cancer. Previous research has found... more »
Pisacano Leadership Foundation names 2014 Pisacano Scholars
Annals of Family MedicineNovember 18, 2014
Alyssa Shell, a 2014 Pisacano Scholar, is at UTMB earning her M.D./Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences. While in medical school, Shell received the... more »
Activity monitors are step in the right direction
Houston ChronicleNovember 18, 2014
Researchers from UTMB studied 13 of the most popular wearable lifestyle activity monitors to study the effectiveness of behavior change techniques.... more »