• Rabies is preventable if swift action is taken

    Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp highlight the importance of seeking medical care after a possible rabies exposure in their latest Vaccine Smarts column. Once symptoms emerge it is nearly one hundred percent fatal, yet it is entirely preventable if treated promptly, they write.

  • Spending less, living longer: What the U.S. can learn from Portugal’s innovative health system

    “They take care of people. If you’re poor, you still get health care. And you don’t have to have a job to get health insurance,” UTMB’s Dr. Kyriakos S. Markides tells STAT about Portugal’s health care system. STAT reports that Portugal has a life expectancy nearly four years longer than the U.S. despite spending 20% of what the U.S. does on health care per person.

  • 'Blue Zones' Under Scrutiny: Are these Longevity Hotspots Just a Myth?

    A recent study has found flaws in the blue zone hypothesis. “I think the paper nicely showed that where we see high levels of supercentenarians, these are also places where we haven't had good reporting on ages,” said UTMB’s Dr. Neil Mehta.

  • WVSOM graduate is training to provide medical care to space crew

    UTMB aerospace medicine resident Dr. Ethan Stephens was profiled by the West Virginia Daily News. “I knew I wanted to get training in family medicine, but I also had an interest in engineering and spaceflight. I found out about aerospace medicine late in medical school and was able to observe some online lectures about the specialty. I have been hooked ever since,” Stephens said.

  • New AI-based tool helps diagnose prostate cancer

    UTMB’s Department of Pathology is the first academic healthcare center in Texas to add an artificial-intelligence based tool to help in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, reports the Daily News.

  • Who gets to live to 100? The answer may surprise you.

    A new study finds that that Black octogenarians in the United States have significantly better odds of living to 100 than their white counterparts. UTMB’s Dr. Kyriakos Markides tells the Globe that the study confirms and adds to the research he’s done on Hispanic aging.

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