UTMB’s Dr. Marcela Navarro spoke to Parents.com about what parents should look for when picking out a stroller wagon. Navarro highlighted five key safety features a stroller wagon should include: 5-point harness, sturdy frame and wide wheelbase, locking brakes, UV-protective canopy, and high weight capacity.

In his column, Dr. Samuel Mathis wrote about the health benefits of hiking.

"I'm concerned that people think that vitamin A or other nutrition is a substitute for vaccination to prevent infection and to prevent spread," UTMB’s Dr. Scott Weaver tells NPR. Two people have died in the West Texas/New Mexico measles outbreak and infectious disease doctors are worried about the spread of misinformation on online and from the federal government, NPR reports.

Dr. Scott Weaver also spoke the Dallas Morning News about the West Texas measles outbreak. “What’s particularly bad about the measles virus is that it damages or destroys a lot of our immune cells that maintain our immune memory,” Weaver said.

The Daily News shared a story on UTMB’s recently announced collaboration with Nipoka, a German-based imaging and diagnostic company, that could transform how kidney patients are diagnosed, treated and monitored.

There is “no evidence that vitamin A supplementation improves the outcome of measles in a child who has no vitamin A deficiency in the United States,” UTMB’s Dr. Susan McLellan tells The Hill for a story on how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians.

Immunity from the measles vaccine available from 1963 to 1967 does not last as long as the current MMR vaccine, Dr. Scott Weaver tells the Morning News. People who received an early iteration of the measles vaccine may want to consider getting another shot, the Morning News reports.

UTMB’s Dr. Agenor Limon was one of the experts consulted by Prevention for this story on brain development. “We may not learn as easily as we did when we were kids, but we can still learn,” says Limon.

“If you don't have a good mitigation strategy today, you're dead in the water," says Ejay Birkmeyer, assistant vice president of revenue cycle operations at UTMB, tells healthleaders for this story on HIPPA regulations and cyber security.

Vaccine Smarts writers Dr. Megan Berman and Dr. Richard Rupp answer questions about measles vaccines in their latest column. Should you get a booster if you can’t remember if you had the measles vaccine? Can a 3-year-old get their second MMR vaccine ahead of schedule? Should I get a booster if traveling to West Texas? Berman and Rupp answer these and other questions.