Topic: University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston
10/23/2010 Print E-mail Airbags greatly reduce the risk of kidney injury in car crashes, according to a new study.. Front-impact airbags were associated with a 45.3 percent reduced risk of kidney injury, while side-impact airbags were associated with a ...
Consuming nutrient-rich foods such as omega-3s, blueberries and chocolate, and engaging in regular physical and mental exercises may increase brain health and ward off Alzheimer's, a University of Texas researcher.. John H. Byrne, Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Department ...
Nurse practitioners are advance registered nurses with extensive medical training, and their job duties are not too different from that of physicians who work at a office. Nurse practitioners' duties include diagnosing and treating patients, prescribing medication when needed and doing minor ...
As one of the largest cities in the United States, Houston has several nursing programs to offer. Higher-level degree programs also are available for nurses who want to further advance their careers in the health care field or specialize in certain areas ...
PDGFR's role in new blood vessel formation may explain cardiovascular side effects. "Recently, some of these targeted anti-cancer drugs have been associated with heart failure," said Aarif Khakoo, M.D., assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Cardiology and ...
The risk of dying from a heart attack increases by a third during outbreaks of the flu and related respiratory diseases, found researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The study authors estimate that 90,000 coronary deaths ...
6/17/2008 Print E-mail A new compound that may lead to an inexpensive, easy-to-take treatment for diarrhea has been discovered by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. "While this research looks extremely promising as a preventive ...
ers say they have found a way to prevent preeclampsia in mice that might eventually help pregnant women with this potentially deadly disorder.. In a report published in the July 27 issue of Nature Medicine, the University of Texas-Houston Medical School researchers ...
The common practice of administering heparin soon after cardioembolic stroke is associated with an increased risk for serious bleeding, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the September 2008 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the ...
People with a family history of shingles may have increased susceptibility to the disease, say researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.. Stress, trauma, exposure to heavy metals and ethnicity may also play a role. "A significantly higher proportion ...
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