Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
April 3, 2023
Mickey Wright of Katy, Texas, is just a regular 7-year-old boy who earns good grades, plays video games, and wrestles in Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes. His life, however, would not be as full if it were not for a life-changing surgery and therapy program.
April 3, 2023
Chronic lower back pain prevented her from playing volleyball at age 13, but today a teenager from Katy, Texas, is back in full swing, thanks to the correct diagnosis and treatment for endometriosis.
March 24, 2023
How women with heart disease respond to stress can increase their risk of developing adverse cardiovascular events, according to a new study co-authored by researchers with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and Emory University in Atlanta.
March 23, 2023
The new UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences has been approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and unanimously by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, moving the university closer to establishing a seventh school.
March 23, 2023
People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may experience genome structure changes that not only may explain our immunological symptoms after infection, but also potentially link to long COVID, according to a new study by researchers at UTHealth Houston.
March 6, 2023
As a teenager in his native Turkey, Atilla Ertan, MD, spent every day after school in the hospital—but not for himself. “My younger sister had developed a heart problem and had to stay there,” he says. “When I went to see her, I always left impressed with the doctors.”
March 6, 2023
As a woman in her early 20s, Megan Le’s life should have revolved around her budding career and making memories with friends and family that would last a lifetime. Instead, her focus revolved around her declining health due to uterine fibroids.
February 16, 2023
Cheryl Navar was 24 weeks into her pregnancy when doctors found multiple tumors in her unborn baby’s heart. Before baby Nora entered the world, her soon-to-be parents sat in their hometown in Corpus Christi to learn about a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).
February 8, 2023
On her first shift as a medical student at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Elisa Williams, a fourth-year medical student with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, was faced with tragedy when a patient and family suffered the birth of a stillborn child.
February 7, 2023
Breakthrough COVID-19 infections after vaccination occurred in 7.5% of Texans surveyed and were linked to Hispanic ethnicity, larger household size, rural versus urban living, type of vaccination, and multiple comorbidities, according to findings from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health published Feb. 2 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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