University of Texas Medical Branch News

The Coast Guard medevaced a 43-year-old male from the motor vessel Sicily, 28 nautical miles southeast of Galveston, Wednesday.

Vical Incorporated today is presenting a strong rationale advocating the use of DNA vaccine technology for emerging and/or pandemic infectious diseases.

James Rohack is the president of the American Medical Association, which is meeting in Houston through Tuesday.

Two people were injured when a helicopter crashed on takeoff from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

A newly released report criticizes area health care providers for claiming to provide millions in charity care, while at other times denying they do so, and for lacking state-mandated polices about free and discounted medical services.

Jimmy Wu poses at a clinic in Oak Creek, Wis. Wu spent a summer in Beijing with a university faculty member observing traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture and hopes to include these in a family medicine practice someday.

Starting Monday, children 12 years old and younger no longer will be allowed to visit family and friends in John Sealy Hospital, a policy designed to slow the spread of the swine flu .

A shooting at a nightclub involving two Honduran nationals left one man injured Saturday night, police said.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.

Police found a boy who had been missing from Georgia since Oct. 19 and arrested his mother, a former University of Texas Medical Branch student, on a fugitive from justice warrant, authorities said Saturday.

A local cancer center the University of Texas Medical Branch shut down last year is open again at a new location.

The woman who was the first in Galveston County to die from swine flu had sought treatment at the University of Texas Medical Branch but was discharged after she was diagnosed with pneumonia, her boyfriend and health officials said Thursday.

Most companies that launch or rapidly increase their use of virtual desktops do it to cut their support costs or increase security.

Cambridge Who's Who offers an online networking platform where members can establish new business relationships and achieve career advancement within their company, industry or profession.

Ever since the previously unknown SARS virus emerged from southern China in 2003, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston virologists have focused on finding the source of the pathogen's virulence - its ability to cause disease.

For kids, Halloween means one thing, candy. But for parents, it's taking on a whole new meaning thanks to the H1N1 virus.

For thousands of years, people have believed that eating large amounts of protein made it easier to build bigger, stronger muscles.

Texas Traveler has spent the better part of the month checking out some of the creepiest, oldest, most interesting parts of Houston and it's neighboring cities, and to wrap up the month we have a few more tales to tell you about.

A man who possibly suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel died after starting a chain-reaction crash involving three vehicles, authorities said Friday.

Dr. Eric Kerstman and Marilene Kerstman bought a four-bedroom three-bath home at 4849 Chardonnay Dr.