UTMB News Articles

“A UTMB Galveston pathologist can now use AI to help diagnose prostate cancer,” reporter Haley Hernandez tells KPRC viewers. KPRC featured UTMB’s first in the state AI assisted prostate diagnoses process on their news broadcast. The next step, Hernandez reports, is using the tool for breast biopsies.

Becker’s highlighted a UTMB study that finds that patients using GLP-1s may face higher risks of complications and readmissions following total shoulder arthroplasty.

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.

Asking for help can be scary but studies show being aware of our limitations can boost mental health and resilience writes Dr. Samuel Mathis.

“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.

Research from a large study in Finland has shown that some mental illnesses may be transmissible among adolescents, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column.

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.

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.

UTMB’s Dr. Hani Jneid helped explain the role saturated fat plays in heart health. "Additionally, saturated fats are calorie-dense, and consuming too many can lead to weight gain and obesity, which further increases the risk of health issues like heart disease and diabetes," Jneid tells Yahoo!Life.

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.

Research supports that gratefulness offers extensive health benefits, writes Dr. Victor S. Sierpina in the Daily News. Benefits of gratefulness include improved mood, better socialization, stress reduction, quality sleep, reduced pain and inflammation, stronger immunity, and lowered risk of cardiovascular and neurocognitive problems.

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.