Bikinis, beaches and beer: spring break is here. But with it comes the sobering thought that 1,700 college students each year die as the result of alcohol misuse and thousands more are injured or sexually assaulted, says college drinking expert Scott Walters, Ph.D., associate professor at The University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus.
UT Houston pediatric dentist provides training to 35 colleagues from around the world at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games. Sanford Fenton, D.D.S., chair of pediatric dentistry at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston, has been a Special Olympics Global Clinical Adviser since 2005.
One-third of El Paso's residents cross the Texas-Mexico border to Ciudad Juarez to purchase medication and health care services, according to a study by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health El Paso Regional campus.
He was in the throes of a heart attack"”the kind so bad it's called "the widow maker." PATCAR was at the rescue, a state-of-the-art response that required three medical teams-from ambulance to cath lab-to all work from the same playbook in precision time. Alive and well, he cheated death twice in one day.
The nation's alarming consumption of salt is putting many Americans at increased risk of lethal heart disease and stroke, according to Roberta Ness, M.D., dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health. As the president of the American College of Epidemiology, Ness is part of a nationwide initiative to reduce salt levels in processed and restaurant foods.
A group of ambassadors from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann Healthcare System traveled to Guatemala in January to offer medical and scientific collaboration as part of an outreach program to increase international aid.
Brief but personal intervention reduces drinking among risky college drinkers, according to a research study at The University of Texas School of Public Health. Results of the study will be published in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Human milk is unarguably the best food for babies, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. It contains the right amount of nutrients in the right proportions for a growing baby. Breast milk is different at the beginning and end of a feeding. It also comes in a variety of flavors that hinges on the mother's diet.
To fight an epidemic of obesity and its life-threatening complications in the Brownsville area, faculty and students at The University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus have come up with a strong weapon: a farmer's market loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables.
The heat is on. Literally. From thermal therapy for cancer treatment to special lights that pick up oral cancers better than the naked eye, smoking-related cancers find it harder to hide. Quitting is easier too, with new weapons against nicotine addiction.
Students at The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus (ARC) will have the opportunity to receive a dual master's degree through a collaborative program with The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, beginning fall 2009.
Families come in all forms. Walking hand-in-hand with his 11-year-old daughter, Dr. William Daily collapsed. Rounding the corner at that very moment was another member of his "family": Dr. Robinson. What would follow is nothing short of a miracle made possible by timing, tenacity and training. Oh, and two families who brought one of their own back to life.
With colder temperatures setting in across the United States, an expert at The University of Texas School of Public Health warns Americans to be aware of the dangers that may come with heating their homes. From fire hazards to carbon monoxide poisoning, there are ways to try to avoid tragedies like the recent one in Aspen, Colorado that left four members of a family dead.
As the documentary film "HAZE" hits college campuses throughout the country, it comes packaged with a secret weapon of sorts: a facilitator's guide written by Scott Walters, Ph.D., associate professor at The University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus and author of "Talking with College Students about Alcohol." The guide is intended to encourage conversation and awareness about alcohol use on college campuses just as the annual December peak in alcohol consumption among college students arrives.
Physicians at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston's Minimally Invasive Surgeons of Texas have enrolled the first patient in Texas in a clinical trial that will examine the safety and effectiveness of an incision-free procedure to treat obesity.
New evidence discovered by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus shows that patients with Type 2 diabetes may be at increased risk of contracting tuberculosis because of a compromised immune system, resulting in life-threatening lung infections that are more difficult to treat.
A retrospective study of more than 13,000 seniors with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) found that patients on the lower end of the economic ladder were more likely to die, report epidemiologists at The University of Texas School of Public Health. The study results will be published in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. NHL is a type of cancer that attacks the body's immune system.
Researchers and educators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are examining the virtual world of Second Life for both its addictive and educational potential.
iTunes users can now get the latest health care information by downloading free podcasts produced by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by logging into iTunes U at www.uth.tmc.edu/itunesu. The UT Health Science Center iTunes U initiative is led by The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston and the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS).
Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, M.D., professor of epidemiology at The University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus and one of the world's leading virologists, will be recognized on Monday, Oct. 13, as one of the Women In Technology International's (WITI) 2008 Hall of Fame winners.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will play a key role in local recruitment for the largest child health study in the United States.
After nearly two weeks of missing their students' smiles because of Hurricane Ike, Margaret Carmona and Irasema Barrera have their own reason to smile. Their classroom has received the Texas School Ready! certification for the 2008-2009 school year.
Roaring winds. Flying debris. Pelting rain. Sleeping in two-hour shifts, Mike Gillum and Eddie Horace listened, watched and waited for Hurricane Ike to do its worst.
For the third consecutive year, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston has been recognized as one of the top medical schools in the country for Hispanic students.
Have a foot injury and want to have your images read by the same radiologists who examined Houston Rocket Yao Ming's foot? That access to expert imaging is driving people from professional athletes to Baby Boomers to Little Leaguers to Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine and The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, which has responded with a newly named Sports, Orthopedic and Emergency Imaging Fellowship.
Of the more than 1.5 million people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States, as many as 75 percent sustain a concussion, a brain injury that is classified as mild yet can lead to long-term or permanent impairments and disabilities. A consortium of physicians and scientists in the Houston region is now undertaking a research initiative to improve diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and develop innovative treatment strategies.
Would you like a lemony watermelon? How about a strawberry-flavored banana? Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the day may be coming when scientists will be able to fine tune enzymes responsible for flavors in fruits and vegetables. In addition, it could lead to environmentally-friendly pest control.
Tao Lin, D.V.M., and Steven J. Norris, Ph.D., both with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, have been named grant recipients of the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (ARP) by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. They will receive $150,000 over two years to support their research into conflicting reports about the infectious nature and causative agent of Southern-Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI) in Texas and other southern states.
Could the right diet be a "cure" for autism? Many parents of autistic children believe that avoiding gluten (found in wheat) and dairy products help lessen autistic behavior in their children. Now researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have launched a pilot study to measure physical and behavioral differences among children in a double-blind study. Half the children will be placed on a gluten/dairy powder and half will take a placebo powder.
A new study by researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston could help experts better decide whether to continue the current practice of retesting women during their second pregnancies for a common bacterial infection if they had tested positive for the infection previously.
The United States is not making the grade. The 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) shows the United States ranks 12th of 25 countries among eighth graders in math and science skills. In the No. 1 and No. 2 spots: Singapore and the Republic of Korea.
A large survey conducted by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus, which examined alcohol abuse and dependence among Hispanic male populations in the United States, will be expanded to Mexican males living along the U.S.-Mexico border. The expansion is supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say they are the first to provide pre-clinical evidence that pregnancy-induced high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia may be an autoimmune disease. Their research could provide novel diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities for this intractable disease.
Parents can help their children get off to a good start this school year by getting them back on a school sleep schedule before classes start, according to sleep experts from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions.
The common practice of giving patients the anticoagulant heparin after one of the most common forms of stroke can increase the risk of serious bleeding, according to researchers in the Department of Neurology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
In a development that may lessen the epidemic of diarrhea-related deaths among children in developing countries, scientists in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered a novel compound that might lead to an inexpensive, easy-to-take treatment.
Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have found that patients given a travelers' diarrhea vaccine were significantly less likely to suffer from clinically significant diarrhea than those who received placebo, according to a study published in this week's edition of the Lancet. The patch-based vaccine is part of the Phase 2 study in conjunction with the Iomai Corporation.
People with disabilities all along the Gulf Coast were caught off guard by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and forced to flee without their wheelchairs, service animals and in some instances even their eyeglasses. UT Houston's Lex Frieden has launched a new Web site, www.disability911.com, to help them avoid a recurrence.
Medications that can restore the delicate balance of neurotransmitters destroyed by cocaine use, offering greater hope for recovery, are being studied at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
As the nation faces an impending health care crisis in medical care for its aging Baby Boomers, geriatric specialists across the campus at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are educating those who will be on the front lines in the future.
A study based at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston provides added justification that a thiazide-type diuretic is the best first-choice drug for hypertensive patients. The findings, published in the American Heart Association's Circulation, Volume 117, Issue 20, evaluate the results of a previous trial coordinated by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health, along with other recent studies.
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston have identified family history as one reason why some people might be more susceptible to shingles, a severe skin condition.
Pathologists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have developed a chemically modified protein that may help people with a hard-to-treat form of a genetic bleeding disorder known as Hemophilia A.
Directly influenced by pro-tobacco advertising and marketing campaigns, urban sixth-graders in India are using tobacco products in disproportionate numbers, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health. The new information reveals a country setting itself on a dangerous path to tobacco-related illnesses and death in the next two decades.
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say a crucial decision on whether to give intensive care to extremely premature infants should not be solely based on the infant's gestational age.
Chronic insomnia is costing adolescents more than sleep. It's been linked to a wide range of physical, psychological and interpersonal problems, according to public health researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, who completed the first prospective study of adolescents with persistent sleep problems.
Thousands of college students will flock to beaches and other vacation sites this spring to have fun...and drink. Researchers have tips on how to keep them safe.
Perhaps this interventional project to help Immigrant Mexican Women's health issues will peak your interest for a story"¦According to the ACS: 3,670 women were projected to die from cervical cancer in the U.S. during 2007. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women. The death rate declined by 74% between 1955 and 1992. The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test.
Distinguished speakers will address faculty, staff, students and guests when the six professional schools of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston hold their 2007 graduation ceremonies.
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