University of Texas Medical Branch News

The Federal Emergency Management Agency swooped into Texas before Hurricane Ike's storm surge had subsided, deploying personnel, supplies and its checkbook to assist storm-stricken families across a broad swath of the state.

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series about efforts to restore the University of Texas Medical Branch to the status and capability it possessed before Hurricane Ike.

Any way you look at it, Island Connect's new park-and-ride service is going to be a good thing.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. , /PRNewswire/ -- Two flight surgeons supporting Wyle and its NASA Bioastronautics Contract have been selected for the next astronaut class.

Fluctuating hormone levels may explain trends in the timing of women's susceptibility to neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette's and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, new research suggests.

Syracuse native and LeMoyne College Jeanette J. Epps was accepted into NASA's 2009 astronaut candidate class.

After reviewing more than 3,500 applications, NASA has selected nine people for the 2009 astronaut candidate class.

Mike Shriner of UTMB: 'We're going to have a lot of work ahead of us.' View Larger The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is embarking on nearly $1.4 billion worth of construction projects that will likely draw the attention of local, regional and national building firms in search of business during the down economy.

The drill involves emergency preparedness planners from hospitals and state and local agencies statewide who plan to rehearse what they would do in the hours and days following an actual public health emergency, such as the release of a bioterrorism agent or the spread of a deadly communicable disease.

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday signed into law bills to restructure the state's windstorm insurance fund, the only property insurer for homeowners and business in 14 coastal counties, and provide financial help to areas still struggling to recover from hurricanes in 2008.

A Texas prison inmate has been without his artificial leg for five months after he gave it to a prison-approved prosthetics repairman who disappeared and hasn't been heard from since.

As our nation's economy continues to struggle -- and its impact on states from California to Florida has roiled higher education to sometimes painful extremes -- there is a bright spot in Texas.

A man threatens to kill his two children, police say he does it, then turns the gun on himself and ends up on life support.

From the Cardiovascular Research Group , Department of Medicine, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom; Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility , Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom; and the University of Texas Medical Branch/Methodist Hospital of Houston , Tex.

A cardiologist from Bryan has become president of the American Medical Association.

Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday signed House Bill 51 which includes $150 million in tuition revenue bonds for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston .

An investigation is planned into whether the University of Texas Medical Branch used the financial problems stemming from Hurricane Ike to fire some tenured professors.

Neurological diseases including Parkinson's, Tourette's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , Alzheimer's, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine transporter .

Brazoria County will pay $2.7 million next year to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for inmate health care, including on-site, telemedicine and inpatient services.