UTMB News Articles

“Computers and texting encourage a forward head position and make it harder to maintain good posture,” UTMB’s Dr. Lynne Hughes tells The Washington Post. Hughes provided some tips, such as taking breaks and building up back and ab muscles, to help maintain a more upright posture.

The flu is primarily spread through respiratory droplets made when someone infected coughs, sneezes or talks, Dr. Megan Berman tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Berman says that it is possible to get the flu even if you’ve been vaccinated, but your symptoms will be much milder than if you didn’t get vaccinated.

The New York Times took a deep dive into what space does to the human body and what that means for future space tourists. UTMB’s Dr. Natacha Cough and Dr. Ronak Shah were quoted in the story. “If we go to Mars, you can’t pull a U-turn,” Cough said speaking to the Times about the need for flight health care providers to be ready to handle whatever may come up on a trip to space.

The NIH has granted $4 million to an area initiative to create a research and commercialization hub.

Have you ever considered how many people experience hearing loss, ask Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their Medical Discovery News column. There can be multiple reasons a person experiences hearing loss but, thanks to scientific research, there could also be ways to reverse it.

UTMB’s Dr. Hasan Yasin provides tips and techniques for buying healthy food on your next trip to the grocery story.

Naming a new vaccine isn’t an easy process, write Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp in their latest Vaccine Smarts column. Rupp and Berman walk readers through steps of naming the newest lifesaving shots.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, Dr. Samuel Mathis writes about the real health effects practicing gratitude can have. Studies have found that practicing gratitude for 15 minutes a day can have a profound and lasting impact on our lives and how we perceive the world, Mathis writes.

While it’s impossible to predict which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, swine flu is a likely candidate write Drs. Nobert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column.

“It is very important that this drug was approved and reached the market,” UTMB’s Dr. Giulio Taglialatela tells the Daily News for a story on a study currently recruiting people for a clinic trail. “The ultimate goal is a cure, which I really hope we are on the right track to achieve,” Tagliatela said.

UTMB’s Dr. Peter Cram comments on a recent report that found Canada scores poorly when it comes to opioid deaths and access to care.

Visits to the ER for children are on the rise as candy-like medications become more common, according to this report from KTRE. Mark Winter, a specialist for the Southeast Texas Poison Control Center and UTMB professor, told KTRE that poison centers have been dealing with medications that look like candy for years.

The cost savings from blood management programs go beyond blood acquisition costs, UTMB’s Dr. Justin Halls tells Healthcare Brew.

The American Association of Medical Assistants named UTMB’s Sherry Bogar, a certified patient navigator and medical assistant at UTMB’s Surgical Oncology and Breast Health Clinic in League City, as the 2023-2025 AAMA Speaker of the House.

Becker’s spoke to Dr. Jochen Reiser about the recent reorganization of UTMB’s executive leadership team to support four main pillars: research, education, clinical delivery and innovation.

Dr. Jochen Reiser also spoke with i45Now about the renovation of the 1933 US Customs House on Galveston’s historic Strand into the state-of-the-art incubator. The facility exemplifies what Reiser calls the “fourth pillar,” adding innovation to the institution’s existing foundation of research, education and clinical care.

“This facility will empower researchers and entrepreneurs to collaborate in a unique ecosystem, bringing advances in life sciences closer to practice,” UTMB’s Dr. Jochen Reiser said at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the 7,000 square foot Life Science Incubator.