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Dr. Samuel Mathis weighed in on the health benefits of lemon water.

Research has shown supplemental taurine can extend the life of worms and mice, and improves the long-term health of monkeys and new research in humans is starting to match the results found in animals, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column.

Vaccine Smarts columnists Drs. Megan Berman and Richard Rupp share the latest CDC recommendations for adults interested in the RSV vaccine. “Currently, all adults aged 75 and older, as well as adults aged 60-74 who are at increased risk for severe RSV disease, should receive a single dose of an RSV vaccine,” they write.

Learning is a vital part of life and health writes Dr. Samuel Mathis.

“Right now those guys are feeling very vulnerable, and very, very few are willing to cooperate,” UTMB’s Dr. Gregory Gray tells the New York Times about farm workers dealing with the spread of bird flu. There is a chance the virus will burn through and disappear but that could take months or years the Times reports.

UTMB’s Dr. Samuel Mathis spoke to The Healthy about the connection between stress and UTIs. “Stress does not directly cause UTIs, but it can make you more susceptible to an infection through its effect on our immune system,” Mathis said.

Getting pregnant can make you older write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their Medical Discovery News column. New reports find that pregnancy can accelerate biological aging in women.

Houston TV station KPRC visited Dr. Rakez Kayed in Galveston to learn more about the groundbreaking nasal spray treatment for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other similar diseases.

“Stress does not directly cause swollen lymph nodes,” UTMB’s Dr. Samuel Mathis tells They Healthy for this article on swollen lymph nodes and what to do about them. “However, stress can lead to swollen lymph nodes by affecting the immune system.”

Reporter Melissa Wilson with Fox 26 met with the family of Olin Lewis, a 5-year-old diagnosed with a rare kidney condition. Olin and his family travel from Katy to the UTMB Clear Lake Campus regularly to see a team specialized in kidney care. It was UTMB Family Nurse Practitioner Ashley Moses who suggested the family come to Clear Lake to get the specialist care their child needed.

Lower back pain is one of the most common pain complaints Dr. Hassan Yasin hears in his clinic. In his column, Yasin provides some natural ways reduce the risk and severity of back pain.

While it is no longer a death sentence, there is still no cure for HIV write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their latest Medical Discovery News column. But the development of gene editing may offer a way of removing or inactivating HIV in the body.

UTMB nurse Vanessa Abacan writes about becoming a Clinical Nurse Specialist, entrepreneur, and author in an essay for The Nursing Beat. “It's a tale of grit, a dash of delusion (or as I lovingly call it, 'delu-lu'), and the undeniable power of passion,” Abacan writes.