Adolescents who met the recommended guidelines of nine-11 hours of sleep per day were shown to have a significantly lower risk of hypertension, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
Assistant Professor Kevin Lanza, PhD, has been selected as an author for the Southern Great Plains chapter of the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6). The NCA6 publication, a government-funded report, will analyze the impacts of climate change to be presented to Congress and the president.
Medicare-certified home health agencies, which are key to allowing older adults to age in place, are increasingly going through ownership changes, raising concerns about health care spending, workforce, and quality of care, according to a study by UTHealth Houston.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health researchers were recently awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a multi-dimensional surveillance system for congenital heart defects (CHD).
October 21, 2022
Andrew Springer, DrPH, associate professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, has been recognized by the University of Texas Regents for his "extraordinary dedication" to students.
October 20, 2022
Throughout her career, Barnes has focused on addressing health inequities. Her work with EHF expands that focus, as it works towards taking on the underlying, non-medical factors that impact health.
October 7, 2022
The UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the Texas Developmental Center for AIDS Research (Texas D-CFAR), a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish the new Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV (Texas IS Hub).
October 6, 2022
A $3 million grant to determine how genes affect a person’s risk for heart failure has been awarded to Bing Yu, PhD, The JLH Foundation Chair in Transplant Prevention at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. The project is co-led with Vasan Ramachandran, MD, inaugural dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio, which is a partnership of UT Health San Antonio and The University of Texas at San Antonio.
October 4, 2022
A method that combines case investigation data from local health departments and hospitalizations records from local institutions allows for the objective detection of new waves of infection during a pandemic, according to research from UTHealth Houston.
September 28, 2022
Hispanic communities tend to be understudied in genetics research, and the cohort addresses this absence by studying the surrounding Mexican American population in this area.
September 22, 2022
Restrepo's research shows that the community at the Texas-Mexico border has among the highest prevalence of type 2 Diabetes among tuberculosis patients worldwide.
September 19, 2022
This collaboration between researchers from UTHealth School of Public Health, along with the UAMS, BCM, and Texas Department of State Health Services, determined that hypospadias, which affects 1 out of 200 boys born in the U.S., co-occurs with CHDs.
August 22, 2022
While the paper utilized pre-COVID-19 data, the researchers say their findings suggest that COVID-era gig workers will likely see an even greater increase in poor overall health and psychological distress.
August 10, 2022
Those administering vaccines should address hesitancies some may have by holding “respectful conversations...address any misinformation; share the benefits of vaccines, curate honest information, and rebuild the trust that has been lost in science and public health,” says Paula Cuccaro, PhD.
