New research shows an uptick in weight loss surgery among youth in US
June 1, 2023
More adolescents in the U.S. are undergoing weight loss surgery, according to researchers with UTHealth Houston.
June 1, 2023
More adolescents in the U.S. are undergoing weight loss surgery, according to researchers with UTHealth Houston.
June 1, 2023
UT Physicians, the clinical practice of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has received a prestigious 2022 President’s Volunteer Service Award (bronze level) from the Houston Food Bank.
May 25, 2023
Nearly $13 million in federal grant funds to study treatments for traumatic brain injury, which kills an average of 190 people and hospitalizes another 600 in the U.S. every day, has been awarded to UTHealth Houston by the Department of Defense’s Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
May 24, 2023
African Americans with a mutation in the gene TRPM4 are more likely to have increased inflammation in the brain, resulting in poor recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI), compared to others who don’t have the mutation, according to a study by researchers with UTHealth Houston.
May 24, 2023
Tyrone Dallas can now lay his head on a pillow and have a good night’s rest — something so ordinary, but he doesn’t take it for granted. Before meeting Pritesh Mutha, MD, gastroenterologist with UT Physicians, Dallas couldn’t do a lot of everyday things due to his diabetic gastroparesis.
May 24, 2023
Prestigious grants totaling more than $4 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network (MFMU) and the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) have been awarded to UTHealth Houston.
May 23, 2023
During a recent outing to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Nashville native Joseph Ennes III experienced a life-changing cardiac event. Thanks to UT Physicians, his surgery was a success.
May 19, 2023
The drug valbenazine statistically improves chorea, a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington’s disease, when compared to a placebo, according to a recent international study led by UTHealth Houston researcher Erin Furr Stimming, MD, who served as principal investigator on behalf of the KINECT-HD Huntington Study Group.
May 18, 2023
UTHealth Houston pediatric dentists are now part of the Integrated Health Clinic, a program of Harris County Resources for Children and Adults, by providing comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health care for children in Harris County who are involved or under the care of Child Protective Services.
May 16, 2023
In trauma patients with severe blood loss, if transfusions are working, physicians should not stop giving them to patients regardless of the amount of blood used, and whole blood should be used first, according to new research at UTHealth Houston.
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