Salute to nurses: Meet UTHealth Houston鈥檚 honorees
Six UTHealth Houston nurses who have dedicated themselves to caring for others were named as among the best in the city in the Houston Chronicle's 2004 Salute to Nurses.
A significant link between the use of electronic cigarettes and earlier age of asthma onset in U.S. adults was reported by UTHealth Houston researchers today in the .
Three years ago, Monique Dorsey had a textbook-perfect pregnancy. She brought home a beautiful baby girl and everything seemed fine, until it wasn't. A thunderclap headache warned of a small stroke to come. Diagnosed with an uncommon form of post-pregnancy preelampsia and treated successfully by Louise McCullough, MD, she shared her story so other women could learn from it.
UTHealth Houston celebrated alongside its hospital partner as Harris Health System broke ground on a new $1.6 billion hospital on the Lyndon B. Johnson campus in Northeast Harris County that will enhance health care in one of the county’s most vulnerable communities.
Academic medicine is in her DNA, says Bindu Akkanti, MD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Every day she goes to work, she is contributing to the development of the next generation of doctors and the future patients they will be treating.