Houston Chronicle Bay Area, Dec. 20, 2007 A new type of liver surgery that minimizes blood loss has been performed at UTMB. It was the first time that this particular type of surgery was performed at UTMB. In addition, UTMB researcher Tatiana N. Nanovskaya has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to advance her research on the safety of bupropion for helping women stop smoking during pregnancy; 93 students in the School of Allied Health Science received degrees on Dec. 14; and researcher Ghulam A. Ansari has received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to do further research on fatty liver, an early and reversible stage of alcoholic liver disease. (No link available.)