'Fake weed' makes teens more likely to take engage in risky behavior than real marijuana
MirrorMarch 17, 2017
A new UTMB study finds that teens who use synthetic marijuana are more likely to take greater risks than those who use real marijuana. "The... more »
Flea-borne bacterial disease spreading wider in Texas
STATMarch 17, 2017
UTMB’s Lucas Blanton commented on a recently published study that found cases of murine typhus are spreading across a large area of Texas.... more »
On the Border of Health
Texas Academy of Family PhysiciansMarch 17, 2017
UTMB’s Frontera de Salud medical mission to the Big Bend area is featured in the latest issue of Texas Family Physician. Fourteen UTMB students... more »
Southwest Passenger Falls Ill, 20 Doctors on Board Offer Help
NBCMarch 17, 2017
Two UTMB doctors, Drs. Jeffrey Aycock and Andrew Grant, were onboard a Southwest Airlines flight when a passenger fell ill. Aycock, Grant and nearly... more »
Houston Matters visits the MakerHealth Space
Houston Public MediaMarch 17, 2017
UTMB is home to the nation’s first MakerHealth Space and Houston Matters came down this week to tour the space and meet some of the people who... more »
It’s no fairytale: Daylight saving time can be hazardous to your health
Galveston County Daily NewsMarch 17, 2017
Losing an hour of sleep thanks to Daylight saving time can disrupt a person’s circadian sleep rhythms which can lead to increased irritability,... more »
UTMB’s First PCORI Award To Develop Big Data Visual Analytical Methods For Precision Medicine
PublicMarch 17, 2017
UTMB’s Suresh Bhavnani is working to use visual analytical methods to help test and improve predictive models that could predict hospital... more »
How not to die from colon cancer
March 17, 2017
It is colon cancer awareness month and UTMB’s Victor Sierpina gives suggestions on what people can do to prevent colon cancer. “Yet colon... more »
Tracking the cause of peanut allergies
Galveston County Daily NewsMarch 17, 2017
Childhood peanut allergies represent a quarter of all food allergies, write Drs. David Niesel and Norbert Herzog in their latest Medical Discovery... more »
UTMB’s first PCORI award to develop big data visual analytical methods for precision medicine
March 13, 2017
GALVESTON, Texas – Knowing which patients are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital after a procedure would be helpful to both patients... more »