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Rios honored for outstanding achievements
Dr. Adan Rios, associate professor of internal medicine, recently was recognized by the University of Houston Law Center with an Arrival Award.
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Experts perform first conscious sedation TAVR procedure
A team of interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-Texas Medical Center performed Texas’ first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) under conscious sedation using the Edwards Sapien valve.
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Burnett named co-director of Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute
Dr. Jason Burnett, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, has been appointed co-director of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment (TEAM) Institute.
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TMC Library celebrates women’s history
The Women’s History Project will hold a reception 4-6 p.m., Thursday, March 20, at the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library to recognize women during Women’s History Month who have made contributions to the development of the Texas Medical Center (TMC). The event is free and open to the public.
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Research study seeks ASD patients
Do you have a child between the ages of 8 and 12 who has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)?
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Microbiology Moulage
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Standardized patients present four different infectious diseases during a moulage for the first-year Microbiology class.
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Abortion getting harder to obtain in Texas
Shortly before a candlelight vigil on the sidewalk outside, employees of the last abortion clinic in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas shut the doors Thursday evening, making legal abortion unavailable in the poorest part of the state in the wake of tough new restrictions passed last year by the Legislature.
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Deadline nearing for marketplace health insurance
One in four Texans remains uninsured.
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Colorado launches campaign to stop stoned driving
Colorado is spending $1 million on television ads making fun of marijuana users who space out during everyday tasks — an effort to stop stoned driving.
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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Americans will be able to keep old insurance plans longer under rewrite of health-care rules
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that Americans who want to keep their old health plans may do so for two years longer than they expected, even if the policies don’t comply with the law.
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Consumer products hang in the balance as FDA and cosmetics industry feud
Negotiations between the cosmetics industry and the Food and Drug Administration have collapsed.
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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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