A Medicare scam that just kept rolling
Washington PostAugust 21, 2014
A wheelchair scam was designed to exploit blind spots in Medicare, which often pays insurance claims without checking them first. Criminals disguised... more »
UTMB researchers develop treatment effective against lethal Marburg virus
ScienceAugust 20, 2014
For the first time, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, in collaboration with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, have protected... more »
Brody: Why we should never lie about health care
Austin American-StatesmanAugust 20, 2014
Continuing coverage of an op-ed by UTMB’s Dr. Howard Brody: I recently listened to two stories on National Public Radio about polio. The... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy: Keep children hydrated to avoid heat stroke
Galveston County Daily NewsAugust 20, 2014
By Sally Robinson and Keith Bly
Most people know that the average normal human body temperature is about 98.6 degrees.
This is the temperature at... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy: Keep children hydrated to avoid heat stroke
Galveston County Daily NewsAugust 20, 2014
By Sally Robinson and Keith Bly
Most people know that the average normal human body temperature is about 98.6 degrees.
This is the temperature at... more »
MDN: Sponges save a soldier
Galveston County Daily NewsAugust 20, 2014
In this week’s Medical Discovery News by UTMB’s David Niesel and Norbert Herzog: In 76 percent of potentially survivable battlefield... more »
Take inventory of words
Galveston County Daily NewsAugust 20, 2014
In this week’s column by UTMB’s Dr. Victor S. Sierpina: One way we can monitor what direction our thoughts — and thus our lives &mda... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy: Keep children hydrated to avoid heat stroke
Galveston County Daily NewsAugust 20, 2014
In this week’s Keeping Kids Healthy column by Sally Robinson and Keith Bly: Sweating is effective in keeping the body at its normal temperature,... more »
The day I discovered Ebola-Reston
Houston ChronicleAugust 19, 2014
Tom Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, studies viruses, such as Ebola, that... more »
Geisbert: The day I discovered Ebola-Reston
Houston ChronicleAugust 19, 2014
In this guest blog for Gray Matters, UTMB’s Thomas Geisbert recalls the day he discovered Ebola-Reston: In 1989, I was 27 years old and was... more »