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iTunes users can now get the latest health care information by downloading free podcasts produced by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by logging into iTunes U at www.uth.tmc.edu/itunesu. The UT Health Science Center iTunes U initiative is led by The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston and the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS).
UT Health Science Center at Houston to Have Key Role
in Largest U.S. Children’s Study
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will play a key role in local recruitment for the largest child health study in the United States.
The National Children’s Study will follow 100,000 children across the United States from before birth through age 21 to identify genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health disorders and conditions of childhood and adulthood. Across Harris County, 2,000 women will be recruited during pregnancy. In all, there are 105 study locations across the nation.
More than 1,000 Classrooms Awarded
Texas School Ready!
Certification from the State Center
for Early Childhood Education
After nearly two weeks of missing their students’ smiles because of Hurricane Ike, Margaret Carmona and Irasema Barrera have their own reason to smile. Their classroom has received the Texas School Ready! certification for the 2008-2009 school year.
“We were closed for 12 days. Two trees fell on our property, one crashing through the office. I can’t tell you what it meant to find out the news that we were going to receive this Texas School Ready! certification. It rivaled the joy I felt at seeing my students for the first time since the storm,” said Carmona, pre-kindergarten teacher at SEARCH’s House of Tiny Treasurers, a nonprofit early childhood development center for homeless children in East Houston. “Our parents can now feel secure in the knowledge that their children are being given a strong educational foundation,” said Carmona.
Scientist Plans to Test for Blood Pressure Genes Affected By Age
A geneticist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston plans to scan the genomes of about 4,000 people in the hopes of finding out why blood pressure often increases as young adults age.
The two-year study by principal investigator Myriam Fornage, Ph.D., is funded with a new $1.1 million grant from the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) of the National Institutes of Health. The grant was one of six announced today during the second round of funding from the program aimed at finding genetic factors that influence common disorders.