June 13, 2023
For years, Mike Culp, 30, followed a highly restrictive diet and took medication to help manage his painful acid reflux symptoms that plagued his life and sleep. At age 18, he went to a specialist, who diagnosed him with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). He was prescribed a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI), a medication that shuts off the acid-pumping cells in the stomach. His symptoms were temporarily managed, but he could not get rid of the burning, acidic-induced discomfort for long.
June 6, 2023
The last thing Mark Wise remembered from his arrival at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was leading his steer into a stall. The next thing he recalled was being in an ambulance and his clothes being cut off with scissors. Between those moments, Wise’s heart stopped beating.
June 5, 2023
Children and teenagers who volunteer tend to flourish mentally and physically, according to a new study from 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.
