Dallas Morning News (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-jailfeds_20met.ART0.North.Edition2.9125ccf.html Investigators from the U.S. Justice Department will descend on the Dallas County jail today to examine health care problems and... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?WCD=82032 Dr. James C. Thompson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award of the Society of University Surgeons during the group’s annual Academic Surgery meeting. Thompson, Ashbel Smith... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3671358.html Kyriakos Markides coined the phrase in his research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. His 1986 study was the first to underscore how Hispanics, despite their socioeconomic... more »

CNN Health (Internet / TV) 02/20/06 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/19/birdflu.animals.ap/ One explanation may be the recent and wide-scale changes in how people interact with the environment in a more densely populated world that is growing warmer and in which travel is faster and... more »

USA Today (Internet / Print) 02/20/06 http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-19-animal-diseases_x.htm Humans risk being overrun by diseases from the animal world, according to researchers who have documented 38 illnesses that have made that jump over the past 25 years. That's not good news for... more »

The Graphic (Internet / Print) 02/17/06 http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-02-16-tanorexia.htm Doctors are beginning to see tanning in a different light other than a cosmetic choice some people make. A 2005 study by Dr. Robert Wagner, a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/16/06 http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=7c36816e4ff76910 Weekly Column by Dr. Sally Robinson and Dr. Keith Bly: Impetigo is a common and highly contagious skin infection caused by two types of bacteria, streptococcus or... more »

Houston Chronicle (Internet / Print) 02/16/06 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bay/news/3660018.html The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has received a $3.2 million grant to support academic, clinical and mentoring programs for Hispanic high school, college and medical school... more »

Galveston County Daily News (Internet / Print) 02/15/06 http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=5a89e6d3c221c826 Jesse L. Dunn III and his wife, Alicia, recently established a nursing professorship in memory of his mother at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The Jesse and... more »

Security Park.net (Internet) 02/14/06 http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=24958&CategoryID=1 Delta Scientific has announced that the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas is using its K12-rated decorative bollards to protect the drop-off to its medical facility and a... more »