2025 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. Each May, McGovern Medical School celebrates Teaching Excellence Month, recognizing outstanding faculty contributions to medical education. New in 2025, the awards program has introduced a focus on junior faculty….
UTHealth Houston opens recruitment in RISE-UP clinical drug trial for people with sickle cell anemia
A medication that appeared to stabilize the function and shape of red blood cells in an earlier study for patients with sickle cell disease is now part of a Phase III clinical trial that is open for enrollment at UTHealth…
At the Bedside: Nurse with sickle cell disease joins clinical drug trial and finds energy she’s never had before
The day that Dorcas Osho and her parents moved to the United States, just one day after her fifth birthday, she began screaming in pain. Her parents scrambled to help their daughter and rushed her to a children’s hospital, where…
New CLL meds: Improved survival rates, 1990-2018
Binsah George, MD, was quoted in an MDEdge article about how medications to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia are improving the survival rate of patients.