Media Spotlight

During January 2006, 73 media placements about The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reached a potential audience of nearly 16 million people. The following is a sample of those media placements.

Famed geneticist Dr. Tom Caskey joins Drs. Ferid Murad and Irma Gigli in a new collaborative leadership structure at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 5.

A “Prescriptions for Health” item announces that the UT Medical School will host: its 16th annual Preventive Cardiology Forum, Houston Chronicle “Health/Medicine” Page, Jan. 12.

At LBJ Hospital, Dr. Richard Bradley says that, because only 6 percent of ER patients actually pay their bills, it is harder for everyone to get emergency care, KTRK-TV’s “Eyewitness News At Six,” Jan. 12.

A Page One story announces that Dr. Cheng Chi Lee’s research team has found a gene that may trigger hibernation in animals – a discovery that eventually could lead to improved treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 19. Also reported by USA Today, Jan. 24.

Dr. Rafael Botero explains how, undetected, hemochromatosis can cause arthritis, liver disease and other ailments, Houston Chronicle “Health/Medicine” Page, Jan. 19.

Dr. Robert Guynn and chief administrator Lois Moore announce that a new treatment unit at UT HCPC will soon start providing inpatient mental health care for adolescents who are unable to live at home or in foster care, KPRC-TV, Jan. 24.

Educators and researchers are invited to submit abstracts for competition in the May 18th Advances in Teaching & Learning Conference, Houston Chronicle “Education” Page, Jan. 25.

Dr. Chris Ojeih carefully oversees a 64-year-old patient’s drug therapies, until the man is “down to 15 pills a day,” Houston Chronicle “Health/Medicine” Page, Jan. 26.

Research led by the UT School of Public Health’s Dr. S. Liliana Escobar-Chaves, found that the mix of kids, media and sex is “a big book of blank pages,” The New York Times, Jane Brody’s “Personal Health” column, Jan. 31.