News Releases

• 2013

• April

• 04/24/13  Air pollution study goes mobile
• 04/17/13  Eye Expo at UH Offers Resources to the Visually Impaired
• 04/09/13  Probe to Detect Spread of Breast Cancer Gets Distribution Boost

• March

• 03/21/13  5K Fun Run/Walk at UH Promotes Healthy Choices, Benefits Summer BOUNCE Camp
• 03/19/13  Three UH Optometry Educators Earn Top Honors at Eyecare Convention
• 03/15/13  'OzoneMap' App Delivering Real-Time Air Quality Reports
• 03/14/13  Two New Programs Put UH Undergraduates on Fast Track to Medical School
• 03/06/13  UH Honors College Fundraiser 'Great Conversation' Delivers Dinner Discussions With Experts, Scholars
• 03/05/13  New Education Program Teaches Health Care Providers How to Teach What They Know

• February

• 02/15/13  UTMB, UH Team up to Study Brain Chemistry
• 02/04/13  UH Opens Doors to Health and Biomedical Sciences Building
• 02/01/13  UH Health Center Warns of Minor Chickenpox Outbreak

• January

• 01/30/13  UH System Board of Regents Approves Creation of Health Science Center
• 01/03/13  New Year Offers New Opportunities to Get Healthy Lifestyle Back on Track

• 2012

• December

• 12/21/12  HoustonPBS UH Moment: Slowing Nearsightedness in Children
• 12/07/12  Donation Made Possible by UH Allows Visually Impaired Child to Read

• November

• 11/14/12  Regenerating Heart Tissue Topic of UH Lecture Nov. 27
• 11/06/12  HoustonPBS UH Moment: Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Making Strides
• 11/05/12  Psychiatrist, Pianist Richard Kogan Visiting UH Nov. 9

• October

• 10/18/12  Predicting Heart Attack Risk Topic of UH Lecture

• September

• 09/26/12  Drug Disposal, Free Health Screenings Available at UH Sept. 29
• 09/07/12  Role of Hormones, Potential New Treatments Topic of UH Lecture

• August

• 08/29/12  Aging Kidneys May Hold Key to New High Blood Pressure Therapies
• 08/23/12  Therapeutic Avenues for Parkinson’s Investigated at UH
• 08/16/12  UH Health Center Accreditation Means High Quality Care
• 08/09/12  W.K. Kellogg Foundation Funds Arte Público Press Program to Combat Obesity Among Latinos
• 08/09/12  UH Students Spent Summer Making a Difference with Hands-on Research
• 08/02/12  HoustonPBS UH Moment: SACK Center Helps Kids with Sleep, Anxiety Issues

• July

• 07/05/12  Like, Comment, Share: UH Graduate Class Uses Facebook, Twitter to Teach
• 07/05/12  UH Helps Middle Schoolers 'BOUNCE' to a Healthy Lifestyle

• June

• 06/26/12  NIH, DOD Grants to Fund Prostate Cancer, Diabetes Research at UH
• 06/13/12  $5M Pledge to Further Research at Molly and Doug Barnes Vision Institute
• 06/05/12  Study Offers Hope for More Effective Treatment of Nearsightedness

• May

• 05/29/12  Student Researchers Seek to Develop New Therapies for Cancer
• 05/23/12  HoustonPBS UH Moment: UH First to Offer On-Campus Dental Clinic
• 05/07/12  New Heart Repair Strategies Discussed at UH Lecture May 15

• April

• 04/23/12  Dual-degree Program Between UH, UTHealth to Speed Nursing Education
• 04/03/12  New UH Lecture Series Examines Impact of Science on Health

• March

• 03/06/12  UH, Methodist Team Up to Prepare Surgeons for the Operating Room

• February

• 02/28/12  UH Creates $30 Million Fund to Recruit Key STEM Faculty
• 02/07/12  Developing New Vaccines for Hookworm Among Topics at UH Lecture

• January

• 01/26/12  Sharper Imaging in Glaucoma Focus of $1.85M NIH Grant

• 2011

• December

• 12/07/11  Alliance Teams Up at UH to Help Visually Impaired Children

• November

• 11/08/11  UH Receives $990K Grant to Enhance Cancer Research Facilities

• October

• 10/20/11  New Drug Strategies for Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis Examined at UH
• 10/14/11  UH Engineers Finding New Ways to Fight Malaria with DOD Grant

• September

• 09/30/11  Weighing the Benefits: Researchers Tapped to Evaluate CDC Childhood Obesity Programs
• 09/29/11  UH Researchers Explain Hormonal Role in Glucose and Fat Metabolism
• 09/20/11  Former Astronaut Bernard Harris Visits UH for Book Signing, Lecture
• 09/08/11  UH Researchers Work to Develop Screening Method for Superbug

• August

• 08/22/11  UH Researchers Explore Treatments for Breast and Colon Cancers
• 08/02/11  Students Seek Solutions to Alzheimer’s, Diabetes and Other Maladies

• July

• 07/25/11  UH Student Awarded Hogg Foundation Scholarship

• June

• 06/28/11  Work to Slow Progression of Nearsightedness in Children Wins Award
• 06/28/11  Former UH Optometry Dean Inducted into National Hall of Fame
• 06/20/11  New Track for Undergraduate Health Degree Offers Solutions to Looming Challenge
• 06/20/11  Study Investigates Asian Americans and Mental Health Care
• 06/15/11  UH Chemist Developing Materials to Detect, Repel E. coli
• 06/07/11  UH Professor Given Commendation for Medical Innovation in Asthma
• 06/02/11  Work by UH Evolutionary Biologist May One Day Help with Chronic Diseases

• May

• 05/27/11  UH Program Gets Students Out of the Classroom, Into the Community
• 05/12/11  Latino, African American Community Members, UH Researchers Discuss Childhood Obesity and Effective Policy
• 05/09/11  UH Chemist Investigates Material for Next-Generation Computer Memory

• April

• 04/04/11  Student-Developed Health Intervention Programs Presented in Virtual World
• 04/01/11  Jan-Åke Gustafsson Leads Team with $5.2M for Prostate Cancer Research

• March

• 03/22/11  Evolutionary ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’ Revealed in Collaborative Study
• 03/01/11  UH Study Focuses on Immunity, Infection, Exercise and Spinal Cord Injured Patients
• 03/01/11  Eye Expo at UH Offers Resources to the Visually Impaired

• February

• 02/21/11  Invisible and Silent No More: Black Deaf Women Share Their Stories, Feb. 26
• 02/21/11  Top-tier Work Earns UH Biologist Prestigious Humboldt Prize
• 02/11/11  Team Hopes to Cut Years Off Development Time of New Antibiotics
• 02/08/11  Arte Público Press Distributes Healthy Words for Healthy Living
• 02/07/11  More Veggies, More Fruit, More Exercise—More TORC

• January

• 01/24/11  Forum to Focus on Using Robotics, Imaging and Simulation in Surgeries
• 01/19/11  Fernando Torres-Gil to Deliver Turner Distinguished Lecture
• 01/10/11  Nuclear Receptors Reveal Possible Interventions for Cancer, Obesity

• 2010

• December

• 12/16/10  Medical Robotics to Improve Heart Surgery
• 12/06/10  Combating Drug-resistant Bacteria Goal of Clinicians, Researchers

• November

• 11/19/10  UH Physicists Study Behavior of Enzyme Linked to Alzheimer’s, Cancer
• 11/18/10  Earl Smith Receives Prentice Medal from American Academy of Optometry
• 11/02/10  Abramson Center at UH Works to Personalize Health Care

• October

• 10/27/10  Health and Biomedical Sciences Center Breaks Ground at UH
• 10/25/10  Unexpected Findings of Lead Exposure May Lead to Treating Blindness
• 10/22/10  UH Engineering Professors Featured in Consecutive Issues of Science
• 10/08/10  Experts Say Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Need Innovative Oversight
• 10/07/10  Governor Presents UH Researcher with Grant for Cardiac Device

• September

• 09/27/10  Dr. Harold G. Koenig to Speak at R.J. DeBottis Lecture on Aging, Nov. 8
• 09/20/10  Drug to Treat Alcoholism Goal of UH Professor's Research
• 09/11/10  UH Hosts Families Resource and Health Fair

• August

• 08/26/10  UH Expert Q&A: Food Safety Expert Jay Neal Adds Insight to Egg Recall
• 08/20/10  Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program Approved for Fall
• 08/18/10  The Eyes of the Pride are on UH Optometrists Serving in Afghanistan
• 08/16/10  Gallbladder Cancer May Be Linked to Estrogens, Says UH Team
• 08/05/10  Simplifying Computer Power Behind Phones, Medical Devices

• July

• 07/27/10  Biology, Computer Science Combine Efforts to Fight Cancer
• 07/06/10  ‘Opportunity Reception’ Begins New UH Research to Control and Reduce Obesity

• June

• 06/29/10  Researchers Urge Caution on Test for High School Athletes
• 06/24/10  Researchers at UH Work to Prevent Neurological Diseases
• 06/14/10  Sunburned Eyes? UH Optometrists Stress Sunglass Safety
• 06/04/10  UTHealth and UH Awarded Alzheimer’s Research Grant

• May

• 05/06/10  Sequencing of First Frog Genome Sheds Light on Treating Disease
• 05/05/10  UH Engineers to Improve Test for Cardiovascular Disease
• 05/04/10  An Aging Society: UH Offers Experts for Older Americans Month

• April

• 04/26/10  Documentary ‘Inside Out’ Focuses on Father’s Perspective of Son’s Autism
• 04/22/10  UH Cognitive Development Lab Investigating How Babies, Children Learn
• 04/13/10  Girls of Summer Put a Little ‘BOUNCE’ in Their Walk-A-Thon
• 04/13/10  From Moms to Metabolism, New Research on Obesity Epidemic Presented at UH Symposium
• 04/01/10  The Embryonic Heart: Imaging Life as it Happens

• March

• 03/02/10  Using Own Skin Cells to Repair Hearts on Horizon

• February

• 02/08/10  Phone App Developed at UH Gauges Physical Activity
• 02/05/10  Researchers Examine Extreme Temps and the Body’s Immunities

• January

• 01/29/10  Exams, Glasses Provided to Shelter Residents
• 01/25/10  Take Heart: UH Offers Many Experts for February

• 2009

• December

• 12/16/09  Health Professor Honored with State, National Awards
• 12/09/09  Sticks andStones Break Bones--This Study May Prevent It

• November

• 11/24/09  Long-term Exercise May Delay Onset of Parkinson's Disease
• 11/01/09  UH Researchers Diagnose Sleep Apnea Using Noncontact Method

• October

• 10/28/09  Swine Flu and the Law: UHLC Summit Explores
• 10/21/09  Stage Set for Houston Ballet, UH to Pair for New Class
• 10/15/09  Health Care Talk Brings Former DNC Chair Howard Dean to UH
• 10/14/09  Dr. Kathryn Peek Takes Reins of UH Health

• September

• 09/16/09  UH Psychology Professor Focusing on Anxiety's Effect on Learning
• 09/14/09  Drug Abuse Researchers Get Career Jump Start at UH

• August

• 08/31/09  Green Building Components on Display at Exhibit
• 08/31/09  Wii STAY HEALTHY: CLASS INCORPORATES POPULAR GAME

• July

• 07/02/09  Veterans Find Ally at University Eye Institute

• June

• 06/25/09  Monitoring Patients' Health, Whereabouts

• May

• 05/21/09  Helping Special Olympians Keep Victory in Sight
• 05/18/09  Every Move You Make: Free Smart Phone App Helps Burn Calories
• 05/13/09  UH Team Develops 'Designer' Contact Lenses
• 05/08/09  Cystic Fibrosis and UH’s HHP Take Great Strides
• 05/06/09  Using Auto Industry Tools for Tumor Therapy

• April

• 04/02/09  Eye Exercises Work Out Vision Problems

• March

• 03/31/09  Virus Evolution Topic of Darwin Talk
• 03/25/09  Crisis in Elder Care
• 03/22/09  UH Lab of Integrated Physiology Expands to TMC
• 03/16/09  Sociologist Has Different View of Obesity Epidemic
• 03/09/09  New Non-Invasive Brain-Mapping Technology Explored
• 03/05/09  Challenges of Urban Health Addressed
• 03/02/09  Obesity Experts Strategize at UH Conference

• February

• 02/20/09  Three UH Faculty Members Honored by Texas Optometric Association
• 02/16/09  Lecture to Cover Health Care Responsibilities
• 02/11/09  Researchers at UH Examine Health, Consequences of Long-Term Gang Life
• 02/10/09  Researchers Put a Lot of Heart Into Their Work at the University Of Houston

• January

• 01/26/09  New Asthma Research Opposes Current Drug Treatment, Says UH Prof

• 2008

• December

• 12/23/08  Optometry Students at UH Earn White Coats And Enter Patient-Care Phase

• October

• 10/29/08  Research Team
• 10/29/08  New Biomedical Engineering
• 10/29/08  Similarities in Imaging the Human Body
• 10/27/08  Researchers at UH Explore

• September

• 09/29/08  Sweat it Out:

• August

• 08/27/08  Biotechnology Program

• July

• 07/31/08  U.S. Department of Education Salutes
• 07/29/08  Second Life
• 07/15/08  Hop, Skip and Bounce:

• May

• 05/27/08  UH Study Urges Healthy Eating

• April

• 04/21/08  Sharper Image:

• February

• 02/26/08  We’re No. 1: UH Health and Human Performance Tops in the Nation
• 02/19/08  Warning: Expert at UH Adds Obesity to Side Effects of Lead Exposure

• January

• 01/18/08  Optometry Students
• 01/10/08  ‘Ready’: UH Professor
• 01/10/08  University of Houston’s Rockwell Lecture
• 01/07/08  Eureka Genomics Licenses Genome Analysis