Targeting Noradrenergic Pathways in Alzheimer’s; Monkeypox Manifestations
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include outcomes for babies in […]
Computer-Based CBT for PTSD; Immune Aging and Life Stressors
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include computer-based therapy for PTSD, […]
Researchers discover new leukemia-killing compounds: Potential of mitochondria-targeted chemotherapies
Researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered potential new drugs that work in concert with other drugs to deliver a deadly one-two punch to leukemia. The potential drugs are still years away from being tested in cancer patients, but a recently published study in the journal Leukemia […]
Doctors to Unveil Fun Dispenser of Books for Little Patients
Tyler Physicians, Alliance Members Promote Health, Child Literacy With New Program WHAT: Tyler physicians and alliance volunteers will unveil their new Texas BookShare program and special “vending machine” to give books to young patients in a fun way, at a clinic for underserved child patients. The physicians and a child will show how kids can earn […]
One Class at a Texas University Dodges the Financial Burden of Med School
Last week, Fort Worth’s Texas Christian University (TCU) School of Medicine announced that the Class of 2024 received a financial gift from an anonymous donor that fully covers tuition for the next academic year, marking the second such gift for the 60-student class. One of the lucky students, Hanna Makk, noted that this will change […]
TMA Statement Regarding Roe V. Wade Opinion
June 24, 2022 Statement by Texas Medical Association (TMA) President Gary W. Floyd, MD, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding Roe v. Wade. “TMA remains committed to protecting the privacy and sanctity of the patient-physician relationship. TMA is unwavering in its stance against intrusions by government or other third parties that impede […]
Mortality Rates and Voting; Varenicline and Smoking in African Americans
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include breast screening imaging comparison, […]
Parents of 4-Year-Old Sue Urologist for ‘Unintentional Vasectomy’
The parents of a 4-year-old are suing Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston for giving their son an “unintentional vasectomy” during surgery for an inguinal hernia. The boy had scrotal swelling that would increase in the evening, and his doctor, Susan Jarosz, DO, found that he had a hydrocele or hernia on the right side. Jarosz […]
She Found Out She Had Prostate Cancer
Eve Gammill, 63, a retired coastal scientist from League City, Texas, was born and raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Local ranchers call the desert nearby “The Big Quiet.” In keeping with the landscape, Gammill had her secrets. Gammill was born and named Steven in the Sacred Heart Hospital run by the Church of Latter Day […]
Ultrasound-guided microbubbles boost immunotherapy efficacy: New platform to improve both antitumor immune responses and responses to checkpoint inhibitors
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed an ultrasound-guided cancer immunotherapy platform that generates systemic antitumor immunity and improves the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade. The findings from the preclinical study were published today in Nature Nanotechnology. As the first-of-its-kind platform, the Microbubble-assisted UltraSound-guided Immunotherapy of Cancer (MUSIC) approach […]