UTHealth Research

November 30, 2022

Research reveals how a potentially fatal COVID-19 complication damages lung tissue

Written By: Jaimy Jones | Updated: November 30, 2022

Mechanisms involved in the rapid, severe progression of fibrosis in the lung tissues of COVID-19 patients, a potentially fatal complication of the virus that damages and scars the lungs, have been uncovered by researchers led by UTHealth Houston.

November 18, 2022

PET technology more effective than angiogram at determining need for coronary stents, bypass surgery

Written By: Caitie Barkley | Updated: November 18, 2022

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.

November 18, 2022

Research leads to tiny tube, other innovations, to save the tiniest babies

Written By: Halle Jones | Updated: November 18, 2022

Paola Salazar was just 22 weeks along in her third pregnancy when strong labor pains sent her to the hospital where UTHealth Houston physicians worked hard to give little Jeremiah one more week in his mother’s womb.

November 10, 2022

Azhdarinia lab receives $3.3 million NIH grant

Written By: Roman Petrowski, McGovern Medical School | Updated: November 10, 2022

A five-year, $3.3 million grant to research receptor-targeted fluorescence-guided surgery in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors has been awarded to UTHealth Houston researcher Ali Azhdarinia, PhD, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

November 10, 2022

Pediatrics research yields diagnostic test for EoE

Written By: Darla Brown, McGovern Medical School | Updated: November 10, 2022

Research from McGovern Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics at UTHealth Houston has yielded a noninvasive diagnostic tool for an increasingly prevalent chronic immune system disease, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).

November 7, 2022

Residents of assisted living facilities lost significant, concerning weight during the COVID-19 quarantine

Written By: Deborah Mann Lake | Updated: November 7, 2022

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.

October 24, 2022

McGovern Medical School researchers discover novel therapy for fungal infections

Written By: Roman Petrowski, McGovern Medical School | Updated: October 24, 2022

Recent research from the labs of Danielle Garsin, PhD, and Michael Lorenz, PhD, professors in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, which identified a novel potential therapeutic against fungal infections, has been published in Nature Communications.

October 24, 2022

Targeting enzyme could alleviate muscle wasting for cancer patients

Written By: Caitie Barkley | Updated: October 24, 2022

Targeting a specific enzyme in the muscle could help cancer patients preserve muscle mass and potentially prolong their survival, according to research from UTHealth Houston.

October 10, 2022

UTHealth Houston study finds pediatric firearm injuries increased during the COVID-19 pandemic

Written By: Halle Jones | Updated: October 10, 2022

Researchers at UTHealth Houston saw an increase in pediatric firearm-related injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite also seeing a decrease in total pediatric emergency department (ED) visits over the same period, according to a poster presented at the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in Anaheim, California.

October 5, 2022

UTHealth Houston researchers awarded NIH grant to study pregnancy depression

Written By: Halle Jones | Updated: October 5, 2022

Using a combination of biomarkers and mood assessments, researchers will study how pregnant women who are experiencing depression respond to different antidepressants in a clinical trial funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to UTHealth Houston. Depression affects approximately 12% of pregnant women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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