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Free stroke event set for May 3
The second annual Stomp Out Stroke! Festival of Life to raise stroke awareness will be hosted by the Stroke Team of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) on May 3 at Discovery Green, 1500 McKinney St., in downtown Houston.
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Faculty Campaign for Students: ‘The Best Ideas Come from Within’
Faculty members at Houston’s health university hold a unique responsibility to go beyond simply educating students. Instead, they are challenged by the UTHealth mission to model the best practices in clinical care and public health.
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IBD event open to public
Gastroenterology experts and colorectal surgeons from the UTHealth Medical School who are affiliated with Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center will provide an in-depth look at the origin, prevent, diagnosis, management and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Nguyen appointed to ACC
Dr. Tom Nguyen, assistant professor of cardiovascular surgery, has been appointed to the Surgeons Council of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Nguyen is a cardiovascular surgeon with the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-Texas Medical Center.
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Chassay named associate dean for Alumni Relations
Dr. Mark Chassay is the new associate dean for alumni relations and assistant dean for admissions and student affairs, effective March 1, 2014.
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AOA Banquet
Members of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society from The UTHealth Medical School are shown during their annual banquet March 10, 2014 at The Cohen House at Rice University.
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Hiring Red, White & You! places vets in medical field
The Texas Medical Center started an initiative to hire veterans that has gone statewide.
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Reports: More Texans, Houstonians get health insurance
Researchers believe an increase in employer-based health insurance might be why the percentage of uninsured adult Texans dropped from almost 25 percent to nearly 24 percent between September and March.
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Obamacare sign-ups surpass expectations, as 8 million reportedly enroll
Federal officials announced Thursday that 8 million people nationwide signed up for marketplace health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, far surpassing expectations for its inaugural year.
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Type 2 diabetes complications show sharp decline, report finds
Federal researchers reported the first sweeping national picture of progress in combating some of the most devastating complications of the Type 2 diabetes epidemic on Wednesday, finding that rates of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations declined sharply over the past two decades.
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Analysis: Americans spent more on medicine, hospitals in 2013
Health care service usage rose in 2013 for the first time in three years, a U.S. health care information and technology company reported Tuesday.
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“ When I returned from a trip yesterday I learned that our colleague, Dr. Tim Bricker, had passed away last week. Tim was the Director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at UT Health Medical School and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. I knew Tim for 30 years and first met him when he was a junior faculty member at Texas Children's Hospital. When he became Chief of Cardiology at TCH in 1992 he has helped me to establish a rotation for the UT fellows at TCH (which was possible in those days). Our fellows ranked it consistently as one of the best rotations at the time. Tim went to Kentucky, and then returned to Houston two years ago. At this time our school was fortunate to recruit him, and in his short tenure he had already made a major impact in his division, the Department of Pediatrics, and the school. In the 1990s Tim and I served together in the group of Associate Editors for Circulation when Dr. Willerson was the journal's editor-in-chief.Through this I got to know Tim even better. I admired his unfailing willingness to help and to serve when he was called upon to serve. Really, the best of American values. And I remember his fairness and unfailing collegiality, even in the most difficult of times for him personally. Tim's tenure with us at UT was cut short by illness. I am certain that he will live on the the hearts of those who knew him, and as an inspiration to all of us in the cardiology community. With profound gratitude. Heinrich Taegtmeyer ”
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