Washington DC Post (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402333.html A virus killed three patients in the past year after they received donated body organs, and a pet hamster may be partly to blame, a report said yesterday. The deaths... more »

MedPage Today (Internet) 05/25/06 http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/GeneralSurgery/tb/3408 In December 2003, four organ transplant recipients developed fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, altered mental states, seizures, and multiple organ failures. All four patients had received grafts from the same... more »

Beaumont Enterprise (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16689867&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512589&rfi=6 The decision to evacuate the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston was anything but easy for Karen Sexton, chief executive officer. With no... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f1d71aa40da43fd0 Miles Cloyd has studied the virus that causes AIDS for more than 20 years. Often chafing at conventional wisdom, his ideas were not always popular. Yet one of the University... more »

New England Journal of Medicine (Internet / Print) 05/25/06 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/21/2208 Editorial by Dr. Clarence Peters: What should be done about controlling LCMV in organ transplantation? The testing of potential donors by means of polymerase chain reaction or... more »

Medical News Today (Internet) 05/24/06 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=43954 Using one of the newest and most powerful tools of biomedical science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) researchers have scored a dramatic success in the battle against... more »

Science Magazine (Internet / Print) 05/24/06 http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/523/4 Scientists are beginning to unravel the causes behind a massive outbreak of a little-known viral disease that's plaguing islands in the Indian Ocean. A broad sequencing study has yielded hints... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 05/24/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=b92751edb8965f83 Try to pencil in some time Thursday evening to hear a discussion about the financial health of the county’s largest employer, UTMB. In the past few years, the Legislature has... more »

KUHF-FM (NPR) Freq. 88.7 (Internet / Radio) 05/23/06 http://kuhf.convio.net/site/News2?JServSessionIdr002=gl5unatf81.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=16533&news_iv_ctrl=1521 Genital HPV infection is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human pappilomavirus. It's estimated by the Centers for... more »

eMediaWire.com (Internet) 05/23/06 http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/5/emw389356.htm According to a second study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons titled, “The Impact of Aviation-Based Teamwork Training on the Attitudes of Health-Care Professionals,” which polled 489 active... more »