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April 23, 2025

For Paulina Horton, science isn’t just a career, it’s an adventure. When talking about her research in immunology, she lights up and describes it with a kind of giddy excitement often reserved for action films.

“It makes me feel like Indiana Jones with a pipette,” Horton said with a grin.

April 16, 2025

With more than a decade of experience spanning health care technology, clinical data analysis, and agile project management, Alexis Symons’ journey from certified pharmacy technician to data-driven health care leader has been anything but linear — but that’s exactly what makes it powerful.

April 11, 2025

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston and UTHealth Houston School of Public Health received top honors last week, ranking No.1 in Texas in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report. It’s a repeat No. 1 performance for the School of Public Health and a new accolade for Cizik School of Nursing.

April 10, 2025

Some begged. Some borrowed. Some chose not to pay a bill. Others were evicted. These decisions, made by UTHealth Houston students and other participants at the Community Action Poverty Simulator, highlight the circumstances many patients face while deciding how to pay for health care and medication.

April 3, 2025

A New York native, Asia Bright, PhD, originally fell in love with Houston’s landscape and southern flair while visiting during her junior year of high school. Still, it was her passion for impacting communities and UTHealth Houston that made her want to stay long term.

April 3, 2025

As Raven Landry embarks on another rigorous day of dental school, she hears the sound of tiny feet pattering across the floor, a sound she’s heard nearly every morning since starting at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry.

April 3, 2025

A chaotic scene unfolded at the Cooley University Life Center courtyard on April 1, but it was all part of an elaborate training exercise designed to prepare students for real-life emergency scenarios.

March 31, 2025

In 2002, my grandmother, Faye Sims, now 76, experienced a sharp, debilitating pain in her jaw while at a café in Fairfield, Texas. She ended up in the emergency room, and doctors discovered she had multiple sclerosis (MS). The pain she was experiencing in her face was caused by trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes described as the most excruciating pain known to humanity.

March 31, 2025

That Thursday morning in January started like any other as Christopher Blankenship, 47, headed into work feeling just fine. However, just a few hours into his eight-hour shift, he felt a slight discomfort between his shoulder blades. He shrugged the pain off, thinking it was a random twinge from a previous accident. But the pain intensified, and Christopher told his co-worker he needed to take a break and sit in his car.

March 25, 2025

UTHealth Houston is proud to announce the successful opening and first online patient visit at its groundbreaking Telehealth Precision Genetic Counseling for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.