Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
May 12, 2025
Teaching healthy relationship skills to middle school students can help prevent adolescent relationship abuse and lead to better mental health outcomes — including reduced depression — years later, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
May 9, 2025
When Jessica Johnson, 36, began to experience labored breathing and heart palpitations, she quickly made an appointment to see a cardiologist. A CT scan showed she had two aortic aneurysms that could potentially require surgery.
May 9, 2025
An eye exam to see why Verna Blackwell was having vision distortion issues led to UTHealth Houston ophthalmologist Arnoldo Treviño, DO, sending her immediately to the emergency room where a scan revealed a brain tumor. His recognition of a dangerous condition and quick action has put her life back on track.
May 1, 2025
Some public transit shelter designs can actually do more harm than good when it comes to shielding from summer temperatures, according to a study led by UTHealth Houston.
April 23, 2025
The molecular mechanism behind why heart attacks can vary in severity depending on the time of day has been uncovered by researchers at UTHealth Houston, potentially paving the way for innovative treatments that align with the natural circadian rhythm.
April 22, 2025
Shubhra Ghosh under went radial keratotomy more than 30 years ago, and over time, her vision began to deteriorate. With the help of Stephanie Handal, OD, optometrist with UTHealth Houston, Ghosh said her vision is dramatically improved, and she is seeing clearly again for the first time in decades.
April 16, 2025
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, according to a new global study led by researchers from UCL in London and UTHealth Houston.
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 8, 2025
Scientists at UTHealth Houston are investigating how the body naturally adapts to hypoxia – an insufficient oxygen supply to the body or specific organs – to develop new treatments for life-threatening heart and lung diseases.
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.
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