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May 16, 2025
Written By: Laura Frnka-Davis | Updated: May 16, 2025
Leaving the placenta in place after childbirth may offer a safer alternative to immediate surgery for women with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS), according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston and published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
In 2020, when she was 4 years old, Khloe Gloria stopped walking. At the suggestion of their local San Angelo physician, her concerned parents took her to see neurologists in Dallas. Khloe’s mom, Natalie Salazar, already had a sinking feeling she knew what the cause was.
Teaching healthy relationship skills to middle school students can help prevent adolescent relationship abuse and lead to better mental health outcomes — including reduced depression —  years later, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, according to a new global study led by researchers from UCL in London and UTHealth Houston.
Scientists at UTHealth Houston are investigating how the body naturally adapts to hypoxia – an insufficient oxygen supply to the body or specific organs – to develop new treatments for life-threatening heart and lung diseases.
April 1, 2025
Written By: Kenny Bybee | Updated: April 1, 2025
UTHealth Houston announced the establishment of the Institute of Perioperative Medicine, which will span different schools, including McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
An imbalance in ligands, which are molecules produced by the body and the gut microbiota, can affect a key receptor protein that plays a role in brain inflammation after stroke, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston, who recently published their preclinical findings in Nature Communications.
March 14, 2025
Written By: Deborah Mann Lake | Updated: March 14, 2025
A stem cell therapy trial aimed at reducing neuroinflammation in patients with presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease is underway at UTHealth Houston.
March 13, 2025
Written By: Kenny Bybee | Updated: March 13, 2025
UTHealth Houston continues to rank among the nation’s top institutions for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, according to the latest annual rankings from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
A modified herpes virus that targets spinal cord nerve cells to treat neurogenic bladder in people with spinal cord injury is underway in a first-in-human clinical trial by UTHealth Houston at TIRR Memorial Hermann.