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HealthCentral interviewed Bindu Akkanti, MD, about complications patients experience with COPD; Sami Hossri, MD, about why asthma causes wheezing; and John Higgins, MD, about the connection between asthma and high blood pressure.

Rodrigo Hasbun, MD, talked to Univision Houston Channel 45 about strep A cases.

Luis Ostrosky, MD, spoke to Telemundo Houston Channel 47 about the first locally acquired case of malaria in the state. The interview appeared in the 4:30, 5, and 10 p.m. shows.

John Higgins, MD, was quoted in a FOX 26 News article about how to beat the heat this summer.

Luis Ostrosky, MD, was interviewed by Today.com about the increasing number of norovirus cases on cruise ships.

Brooks Cash, MD, talked to HealthCentral about ulcerative colitis.

John Higgins, MD, spoke to Health Central about the connection between asthma and high blood pressure.

Brooks Cash, MD, was quoted in a HuffPost article about reasons why we burp. The story appeared on 12 other media outlets including Yahoo! News.

Improving the diagnostic process and preventing errors are the focus of two studies funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and led by Eric Thomas, MD, associate dean for health care quality with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth…

Collaborative research from two McGovern Medical School departments on the role of oxygen in cardiovascular disease treatment recently was published in Nature Reviews Cardiology (Impact Factor 49.4). Basic scientists and clinicians from the departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine and Internal Medicine reviewed multiple…