2008 News Release Archive

12-23-08 » UT Public Health researchers find link to severe Staph infections

12-23-08 » Feldman named ophthalmology chair at UT Medical School at Houston

12-19-08 » UT faculty members win American Heart Association awards for advancing research

12-19-08 » Patient of UT Houston neurologist gives back in gratitude for her care

12-18-08 » UT School of Nursing educator appointed to Southern Nursing Research
Society Board of Directors

12-10-08 » UT School of Nursing professor named AAN fellow

12-09-08 » Researchers to study seizure medications under emergency conditions

12-05-08 » UT Public Health Policy Expert Says U.S. Can Learn From Dutch Universal Healthcare Coverage

12-04-08 » UT Medical School professor named 2008 TIAA-CREF distinguished medical educator

12-01-08 » UT expert on college drinking writes guide to documentary film

11-26-08 » Nuevo León Gov. Jose Natividad Gonzalez Parás to visit
UT Health Science Center at Houston

11-21-08 » Texas Invests Record $3.5 Million in Startup Cofounded by UT's Mauro Ferrari

11-18-08 » Reynolds Foundation award helps to establish geriatrics training program

11-18-08 » UT Physicians Begin Clinical Study of Incision-Free Obesity Treatment

11-17-08 » UT Trainees Tackle Health Information Technology Issues

11-12-08 » U.S. “Super Bugs” Invading South America
According to UT Medical School at Houston Researchers

11-10-08 » Diuretic Reduces Risk for a Type of Heart Failure That is More Common Among Women

11-03-08 » More Outlets for Purchasing Alcohol Linked to Male-to-Female Partner Violence

11-03-08 » Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences Announces Two Executive Appointments

10-31-08 » Fenton to Lead Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the UT Dental Branch

10-29-08 » UT Houston Researchers Find Aggressive Phototherapy Can Improve Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Some Preemies

10-27-08 » McPherson Appointed Chair of Internal Medicine at UT Medical School at Houston

10-20-08 » Socioeconomic Status and Treatment Affect Racial Disparities in Survival for Cancer

10-17-08 » UT School of Nursing Expert Elected to Board of Society for Neuro-Oncology

10-17-08 » UT NanoMedicine Director Named AIMBE Fellow

10-14-08 » UT Public Health Experts Discover New Information about Diabetes’ Link to Tuberculosis

10-08-08 » UT Public Health Expert to Receive Hall of Fame Award

10-08-08 » Half Price Books’ Generosity Allows UT Health Science Center at Houston to Distribute Books to Children Impacted by Hurricane Ike

10-07-08 » UT Researchers to Study Massive Transfusion at Major Trauma Centers

10-07-08 » Advances in Teaching & Learning Regional Conference:
Digital scholarship is reducing need for paper-based textbooks and journal

10-06-08 » UT Health Science Center at Houston Now Offers Free Podcasts on iTunes U

10-03-08 » UT Health Science Center at Houston to Have Key Role in Largest U.S. Children’s Study

09-30-08 » More than 1,000 Classrooms Awarded Texas School Ready! Certification from the State Center for Early Childhood Education

09-23-08 » Scientist Plans to Test for Blood Pressure Genes Affected By Age

09-23-08 » Robotic Surgery Lowers Risk of a Rare but Serious Complication of Gastric Bypass

09-15-08 » UT School of Public Health to Host Panel on Healthcare Leadership

09-10-08 » NIH Awards $6 Million Grant to Identify Scleroderma Genes

09-09-08 » UT Health Science Center at Houston and Mexican University Launch Joint Training Program

09-08-08 » Texas Awarded $2 Million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Childhood Obesity Prevention Grant

09-08-08 » Need to Lower High Blood Pressure After Stroke Should Not Rule Out Use of Clot-Busting Drug

09-08-08 » UT School of Public Health Hosts Texas Obesity Awareness Week Events

08-29-08 » UT Medical School at Houston Honored as A Top Destination for Hispanic Students

08-28-08 » UTHSC-H School of Nursing Center on Aging to host Annual Selenia and Joseph Valley Conference

08-27-08 » UTHSC-Houston to Sign Cooperation Agreement with Medical School in Monterrey, Mexico

08-25-08 » UT School of Public Health and Baylor College of Medicine to Offer Dual Degree Program

08-25-08 » Rise in Treating Sports Injuries Leads to Sports and Trauma Imaging Fellowship
at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

08-20-08 » Biochemists Manipulate Fruit Flavor Enzymes

08-13-08 » Department of Defense awards $35 million to support local brain injury research

08-11-08 » UT Joins with Memorial Hermann to Offer Congestive Heart Failure Program
Meyers to lead new initiative

08-11-08 » Ceremony Marks Beginning of Medical Students’ Journey to Becoming Physicians

08-08-08 » Public Health Clinic Study Links “Americanization” and Depression

08-08-08 » Researchers to Study Lyme-Like Illness in Texas

08-06-08 » UT Houston Researchers Study Diet In Autistic Children
Possible Link Between Gluten, Dairy Products Will be Tested

08-01-08 » Bacterial Infection Has High Rate of Recurrence in Pregnant Women

07-28-08 » Survey of Hispanics and Alcohol Dependence to Be Expanded to U.S.-Mexico Border Population

07-27-08 » Pre-eclampsia May Be Autoimmune Disease

07-14-08 » UT Experts Developing Interventions to Improve Children’s Math Skills

07-14-08 » UT Houston Medical School Researchers:
Using Heparin After Cardioembolic Stroke Increases Risk Of Severe Bleeding

07-11-08 » Hagberg Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology at UT Medical School at Houston

07-07-08 » UT Houston Nursing Faculty Member Honored as One of Country’s Leading Practitioners

07-03-08 » UT Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel of HIV

07-03-08 » Cancer Cell Biologist John Hancock Named Integrative Biology Chair at UT Med School

07-01-08 » The Faces of Our Future Health Care Providers

06-26-08 » UT Houston Names New Public Affairs Leader

06-23-08 » UT Neurologist Joins World Stroke Organization as Honorary Member

06-19-08 » UT Biochemist Jianping Jin Named Pew Scholar

06-16-08 » Novel Compound May Treat Acute Diarrhea

06-13-08 » White House Commends Retired Physician Organization for Innovative Partnership
with UT School of Nursing

06-11-08 » UT School of Public Health Researchers Discover Significant Efficacy
of Travelers’ Diarrhea Vaccine

06-10-08 » UT Houston Senior Media Relations Specialist Named Communicator of the Year

06-02-08 » UT Houston Student Receives MS Research Scholarship
Country Music Artist Clay Walker’s Band Against MS^SM underwrites award

06-02-08 » UT’s Lex Frieden Launches Web Site Offering Hurricane Planning
for People with Disabilities

05-30-08 » UT Houston President Announces New School of Public Health Dean

05-27-08 » UT Researchers Explore New Treatment Options for Cocaine Addiction

05-19-08 »JNC Bases New Guidelines for Hypertension Treatment with Diuretics on UT Research

05-19-08 »UT Houston Dermatologists Link Family History to Shingles Susceptibility

05-19-08 » Kevin Dillon Named One of Houston's Top CFOs

05-19-08 » Blood-Clotting Protein Modified for People with Hard-to-Treat Hemophilia

05-19-08 » UT Houston Responds to Need for More Geriatric Specialists

05-14-08 » Kaiser Named President of UT Health Science Center at Houston

05-12-08 » UT Piques Teen Interest in Medicine, In Effort to Address Doctor Shortage

05-08-08 » Internationally Recognized Nasal & Sinus Specialist Joins UT Houston with Plans
to Create World-Class Sinus Institute

05-07-08 » Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst Announces $5 Million TETF Investment
In UTHSC-H Trauma Research Center

05-01-08 » UT Researchers Find Link Between Advertising and Increased Tobacco Use
Among India’s Youth

05-01-08 » UT Houston Responds to High Number of Developmental and Learning
Disabilities Cases

04-29-08 » UT Houston Pediatricians... Healing Children, Inspiring Readers

04-24-08 » Dr. James “Red” Duke Receives 2008 Thurman Award

04-22-08 » UT Houston Celebrates Six Commencement Ceremonies in May

04-17-08 » UT Houston and Rice join DoD in regenerative medicine research

04-16-08 » Gestational Age Not Only Factor in Outcome of Severely Premature Healthy Babies, according to UT Houston Researchers

04-15-08 » UT School of Public Health Announces Creation of Fleming Center New center to offer advanced training in healthcare management

04-14-08 » Center For Clinical And Translational Sciences Celebrates New TMC Home

04-08-08 » Health IT Chief Robert Kolodner To Address UT Houston Summit

04-04-08 » Grant to Target Rio Grande Valley $7 Million Will Help Fight Diabetes, Obesity

04-04-08 » Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Hosts Grand Opening, April 11

04-04-08 » Childhood Obesity Expert Dr. William Dietz Featured at Second Annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health

03-20-08 » UT Houston Seniors Meet Their Match Almost 60 Percent of the Class Will Stay in Texas For Residency Training

03-18-08 » Adolescents with Chronic Insomnia Report “Twofold to Fivefold”
Increase in Personal Problems

03-17-08 » Faculty Member Appointed Chancellor’s Health Fellow for Public Health

03-13-08 » UT Surgeon Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

03-12-08 » UT Conducts First Empirical Study Demonstrating That Populations of Nerve Cells Adapt To Changing Images

03-12-08 » UT Scientists Challenge RNA Quality Control Model

03-12-08 » UT Medical Students Meet Their Match, March 20

03-07-08 » Willerson Receives Top Honor for Cardiology in Mexico

03-06-08 » New Weight Management Clinic Provides Personalized Approach to Weight Loss

03-04-08 » UT Health Science Center at Houston Receives $2.6 Million Federal Grant to Improve Academic Achievement

03-02-08 » Nanomedicine System Engineered To Enhance Therapeutic Effects of Injectable Drugs

02-28-08 » UT Dental Branch Expert in Maxillofacial Prosthetics Gives Hope to Injured Sea Turtle

02-27-08 » U.S. Faces Severe Shortage of Public Health Workers

02-26-08 » UT Medical School at Houston To Offer Neurosurgery Residency Program
Neurosurgical training expected to help alleviate national shortage of specialists

02-14-08 » Nursing Endowment honors UT Health Science Center at Houston’s ‘First Lady’ Nancy Willerson

02-11-08 » Review of Online Breast Cancer Information
Encourages Healthy Skepticism For Consumers

02-05-08 » UT School of Public Health to offer MPH degree at Austin Regional Campus

02-04-08 » Congressman Ortiz Secures Federal Funds to Support Hispanic Health Research
at UT School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus

02-01-08 » CDC Funded Project Targets High Cervical Cancer Rates in Immigrant Mexican Women

01-30-08 » UT Neurology Chair Meets Challenges in Research, On Mountaintops

01-28-08 » UT Researcher Says College Students’ Predictable Drinking Habits
Can Open Door To Prevention

01-28-08 » Diuretics Excel in Drug Comparison Trial Involving Hypertension/Metabolic Syndrome

01-22-08 » Genetic Makeup May Affect Blood Pressure Medications

01-18-08 » UT Houston Research Shows Etanercept Proven Effective and Safe
in Treatment of Children with Psoriasis

01-14-08 » Boerwinkle Establishes Impact of International Height Study on U.S.

01-10-08 » UT Researchers Decoding Saliva’s Secrets, “Spit Test” to Detect
Breast Cancer Underway

01-10-08 » UT-Houston Surgeons Offer Obese Patients New Tools to “REALIZE ™” Weight Loss

01-07-08 » New Study Will Explore Brain’s Connections Between Touch and Sound

01-07-08 » National Health Information Technology Summit Set for April 15 & 16

01-07-08 » New Study Will Seek Genes Tied to Heart Patients Who Are Depressed

01-03-08 » Illuminating Eye Scans Help UT-Houston’s Rafat Ansari Spot Disease

01-03-08 » Gulf Coast Consortia Awards First Discovery Project Pilot Grants, Will Fund Promising Early-Stage Chemical Genomics Research

01-03-08 » UT researchers study robotic device for stroke survivor therapy

01-02-08 » New federal funding expected for Houston's Alliance for NanoHealth