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Autism Awareness - a conversation with Houston Moms

May 6, 2025 • 2:39 p.m.

UTMB's Dr. Melissa DeFilippis joined Houston Moms for an conversation about what it means to have autism, recognizing signs that your child may have autism, available treatments, and how you can find support as a parent of a child with autism.

Controlling mosquitoes through a toxic relationship?

May 6, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel explore the different ways of controlling mosquitoes including new research that uses spider and sea anemone venom to kill mosquitoes when they breed.

Galveston researchers link cardiovascular disease to life-expectancy gap

May 6, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

“Cardiovascular health is failing, especially in women, and there are no signs that this stagnation is going back to a normal trend,” UTMB’s Dr. Octavio Bramajo tells the Daily News. Bramajo and Dr. Neil Mehta recently published a study that found that cardiovascular disease is the main reason for a growing life-expectancy gap between the United States and other high-income countries.

Guest commentary: We can't subcontract medical empathy to AI

May 6, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

While AI can support clinicians in many ways that will benefit patients, it should not replace “real, flawed, human empathy, we must keep the soul of medicine intact,” writes UTMB’s Dr. Jarell De Matas.

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UTMB Information Technology Services enhances access to innovation through partnership agreement

May 2, 2025 • 11:56 a.m.

The University of Texas Medical Branch signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft, paving the way for initiatives that will protect data, enhance the patient experience, enhance operations and drive innovation.

Experts stumped, but new vaccines offer hope as mosquito-borne illnesses resurge in Caribbean

May 2, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

“We have the science. Now it’s about infrastructure, education, and delivery,” UTMB’s Dr. Scott Weaver said at gathering of scientists at The University of the West Indies that came together to discuss the resurgence of mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue, chikungunya, and Zika.

How Houston could become the global leader in brain health and dementia research | Opinion

May 1, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

Dr. Giulio Taglialatela coauthored an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle on how “Houston region is positioned to become the global leader in the emerging brain economy.”

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UTMB hosts pediatric readiness training for regional nurses, EMS partners

April 30, 2025 • 10:38 a.m.

Emergency rooms across Texas are raising their standards of care to meet national pediatric readiness standards. The new requirements include having appropriately sized equipment and training for emergency staff on treating children, among other things.

Breaking the ‘intellectual bottleneck’: How AI is computing the previously uncomputable in healthcare

April 30, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

UTMB’s innovative uses of AI are featured in this article by VentureBeat. “The data is just sitting out there,” UTMB’s Dr. Peter McCaffrey told VentureBeat. “What I love about this is that AI doesn’t have to do anything superhuman. It’s performing a low intellect task, but at very high volume, and that still provides a lot of value, because we’re constantly finding things that we miss.”

ARRS: Mobile mammo boosts breast screening, but no-show rate still high

April 30, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

“Despite the progress made, many challenges remain in providing life-saving screening imaging to underserved populations,” said UTMB’s Dr. Lidiya Biltibo at the recent American Roentgen Ray Society annual meeting. Biltibo highlighted the success of UTMB’s mobile mammography van as well as the challenges.

A measles tale of two cities

April 30, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times when measles began to spread in Texarkana in 1970. The city straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas and provides a lesson for today on the importance of vaccination, write Drs. Richard Rupp and Megan Berman in their Vaccine Smarts Column.

What is a naturopathic doctor?

April 30, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

In his latest column, Dr. Victor S. Sierpina delves into the role of the naturopathic doctor. “Naturopathic Medicine emphasizes prevention, lifestyle counseling, nutrition, botanicals, and other non-invasive, natural methods of care,” Sierpina writes.

Breakthrough medical advances of 2024 built on biomedical science

April 29, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

“With everything else going on in the world, it can be easy to miss new discoveries in biomedical science,” write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column. Herzog and Niesel go over some of the past year’s biggest breakthroughs.

Arkansas Department of Health reports 2025's first confirmed in-state measles transmission

April 29, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

"If people would just get the standard vaccination, none of this would be happening," Dr. Scott Weaver tells 4029 News as the Arkansas Department of Health reports the state's first confirmed in-state case of measles transmission of 2025.

Guiding Practice Through the Latest KDIGO Guidelines on ADPKD

April 28, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

UTMB’s Dr. Shikha Wadhwani was one of three experts invited to a roundtable discussion organized by MedPage Today to discuss new guidelines released by The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes group.

The billion-dollar question every pharmacy executive will face in 2025

April 28, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

“I think a billion-dollar question is: how can we sustainably balance rising drug costs, access to high-cost therapies, and evolving reimbursement models, while maintaining clinical excellence and financial viability?” UTMB’s Michael Eagon tells Becker’s. Eagon was one of 14 executives featured in the article.

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UTMB students visit Texas Capitol

April 24, 2025 • 3:12 p.m.

More than seventy University of Texas Medical Branch students from all five schools recently made the nearly four-hour drive to the Texas State Capitol in Austin for UTMB Student Day. They were there to talk to elected officials and learn the ins-and-outs of the policymaking process.

Yellow Jack: a modern threat to Asia-Pacific countries?

April 24, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

A new study coauthored by UTMB researchers Dr. Scott Weaver and Dr. Nikos Vasilakis says yellow fever could be the next big global health scare—especially in Asia. A century after public health pioneer H.R. Carter first warned of yellow fever spreading to Asia, this recent study published in Nature, outlines how rapid urbanization, low vaccination rates, and global travel could set the stage for a yellow fever outbreak in the Asia-Pacific region.

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New UTMB Research Reveals Causes Behind America's Life Expectancy Gap

April 22, 2025 • 1:21 p.m.

A newly published study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch offers fresh insights into a critical public health concern: why Americans live shorter lives compared to people in other wealthy nations.

The effects of marijuana use on your DNA

April 22, 2025 • 12:00 a.m.

Despite growing legalization and widespread use, marijuana has been shown to cause changes in the human epigenome—chemical modifications to DNA that can influence gene activity and be passed down through generations. In this week’s Medical Discovery News column, Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel explain recent findings on how cannabis use can alter the human epigenome—chemical changes to DNA that may impact health and be passed to future generations.

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