Thriving on challenges: Gastroenterologist helps mold program into a crucial powerhouse
As a teenager in his native Turkey, Atilla Ertan, MD, spent every day after school in the hospital—but not for himself. “My younger sister had developed a heart problem and had to stay there,” he says. “When I went to…
Patient educates on his condition for HIV Awareness Month
HIV is a virus that targets the body’s immune system, and the late stage of this infection becomes AIDS. Thanks to advanced medicine, however, people with HIV can live functional and healthy lives. Jay, 49, is living proof. In 1998,…
New program at UTHealth Houston will honor Carmel B. Dyer, MD
The legacy of Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, lives on in the same communities she sought to impact throughout her career. The late Dyer revolutionized geriatric health care across the country. She led the UTHealth Houston Consortium on Aging and was…
Distinguished Honors
A trio of McGovern Medical School physicians are honored as 2022 Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital Distinguished Physicians. Pictured recipients are H.V. Anderson, MD, and Mark A. Farnie, MD. Not pictured are Michelle S. Barratt, MD…
Infectious disease expert weighs in on how physicians can effectively identify meningitis infection for best treatment
A new risk score could help clinicians differentiate viral meningitis from community-acquired bacterial meningitis (CABM), according to a review article by Rodrigo Hasbun, MD, MPH, at UTHealth Houston. Meningitis caused by viruses is serious but often is less severe than…
Kolonin, Gutierrez publish diabetes research in Cell Reports Medicine
A translational research study from collaborating laboratories of Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, and Absalon Gutierrez, MD, on the new mechanism mediating the anti-diabetic effects of incretins has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. The global burden of Type 2 diabetes keeps…
PET technology more effective than angiogram at determining need for coronary stents, bypass surgery
A new method for determining whether patients with heart disease need coronary stents or bypass surgery is more effective than the angiogram, which is currently used, according to research from UTHealth Houston Heart & Vascular. A team led by K….
Residents of assisted living facilities lost significant, concerning weight during the COVID-19 quarantine
Older adults residing in assisted living facilities and quarantined to their rooms during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lost significant weight, according to gerontology care providers and researchers from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Significant weight loss of…
Mother of two with sickle cell disease feels reenergized while participating in trial at UT Physicians Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
Kisha McClintock always knew she had a genetic predisposition for sickle cell disease, but it wasn’t until a cold night in December 2013 that the then 33-year-old woke from her sleep with severe pain in her left knee, sending McClintock…
Awake prone positioning does not offer benefit in reducing intubation for COVID-19 induced acute respiratory failure
A large multicenter, randomized clinical trial revealed no difference in the risk of endotracheal intubation requirement at 30 days between awake prone positioning and standard positioning for patients with COVID-19 who suffered from acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, according to research…