Exergames can improve fitness in autistic kids
Yahoo IndiaSeptember 25, 2015
UTMB research find that active-play video games used for exercising can improve physical and mental fitness in children with autism spectrum... more »
Keeping Kids Healthy – Child Cancer Awareness Month – part one
Galveston County Daily NewsSeptember 25, 2015
UTMB’s Sally Robinson marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month observed annually in September. In the first of three columns she discusses just... more »
Naikan: Gratitude, grace and the art of self-reflection
Galveston County Daily NewsSeptember 25, 2015
UTMB’s Victor Sierpina talks about Naikan, a tool that people of any age or profession can use to create greater awareness and cultivation or... more »
Medical Discovery News – Snake bite defense: The opossum
Galveston County Daily NewsSeptember 25, 2015
UTMB’s David Niesel and Norbert Herzog look at LTNF, Lethal Toxin Neutralizing Factor, a specific blood protein that protects opossums from... more »
Inside UTMB – UTMB receives funding for healthy relationships program in Houston-area schools
Galveston County Daily NewsSeptember 25, 2015
Inside UTMB – UTMB receives funding for healthy relationships program in Houston-area schools
Galveston County Daily News, September 22,... more »
Nation’s first medical Makerspace opens inside UTMB
Galveston County Daily NewsSeptember 25, 2015
The nation’s first medical makerspace has opened at UTMB on a patient floor in John Sealy Hospital. The space, with support from MakerNurse and... more »
Nation’s First Medical Makerspace Opens Inside Texas Hospital
September 25, 2015
MakerNurse and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston today unveiled The MakerHealth™ Space at UTMB, the first makerspace in the country... more »
Nation’s First Medical Makerspace Opens Inside Texas Hospital
September 25, 2015
MakerNurse and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston today unveiled The MakerHealth™ Space at UTMB, the first makerspace in the country... more »
Drinking chamomile decreases risk of death in older Mexican American women
The Sparta IndependentSeptember 24, 2015
Researchers from UTMB have found that drinking chamomile tea was associated with a decreased risk of death from all causes in Mexican-American women... more »
Death rate for extremely premature infants largely unchanged
U.S. News & World ReportSeptember 24, 2015
A look at UTMB research that finds little progress has been made in bringing the death rate down for extremely preterm infants in the United States si... more »