This past week, an update released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that influenza-like illness activity has reached 7.7 percent. To put this in perspective, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic...
Community hospitals, academic medical centers and other sites that participate in clinical trials could save time and resources with a standardized system of certification.
A recent article co-authored...
There’s a new neurosurgeon in town.
New Dell Medical School chair of neurosurgery Dr. John Kuo has always been around medicine. When he grew up in Taiwan, his dad, a surgeon, ran a clinic on the...
In response to the dilemma of bacterial antibiotic resistance, a research laboratory at UT-Austin has developed a novel method of screening named SLAY, for Surface Localized Antimicrobial Display.
“Antibiotic-resistant...
Although fevers and runny noses are often associated with colder weather, a study by UT researchers found why pandemics often emerge during the spring and summer.
A flu pandemic is defined as a global...
Researchers at UT-Austin are developing a new diagnostic tool for use in medical tests called liquid biopsies to detect cancers and other diseases.
The researchers are using an ancient bacterial enzyme,...
Abortion remains one of the most controversial and divisive areas of policy around the world. In the United States, abortion is legal but a highly partisan and often moral issue, while elsewhere such as...
A new policy statement released by the American Academy of Pediatrics addresses an often neglected issue surrounding body weight — weight stigmatization.
Weight stigmatization, which involves...
Texas doctors and researchers are reaching across the pond to collaborate with British healthcare companies.
Dell Medical School is partnering with the Association of British Healthcare Industries,...
Students are learning how to fight bacteria with antibiotic-producing bacteria and looking for new antibiotics in Antibiotics: Research and Function, a research stream run by the College of Natural Sciences.
Bacterial...
Walk into any health food store across the nation, and you’ll find aisle after aisle of herbal supplements and natural remedies of dubious value. While alternative medicine often gets a bad rap,...
Scientists at UT and Texas A&M research labs plan on genetically modifying symbiotic bacteria living inside aphids to deliver vaccine-like molecules to threatened crops, as part of the Defense Advanced...
