Public Health

Public health is the scientific, political and sociological approach by a society to maximise the health of the population through disease preventaion and mainenance of healthy life-styles. The main...

Health IT Information Technology

Why Health IT?   Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...

Mental Health

Mental health, although not being as obvious as physical health, is very important, causing great unhappiness to those affected, causing additional physical health problems and costing the economy m...

Sexual Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of sexual health; "the state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, d...

Improving health

RMHC, UTHealth School of Dentistry partner to bring oral and mobile pediatric care in the Houston area

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston, Inc.(RMHC) have joined forces to bring oral, m...

UTHealth research shows American Indians at greater risk of suicide after alcohol intoxication

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) American Indians are at much greater risk of suicide after acute alcohol intoxication, according to a study led by researchers at the University...

Renaissance Physician Organization Leading Effort with Greater Houston Healthconnect to Enhance Care Coordination and Patient Outcomes

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Renaissance Physician Organization (RPO), one of the largest independent physician associations (IPA) serving Greater Houston, has demonstrated its leadersh...

Greater Houston Healthconnect Names New Chief Technology Officer

Greater Houston Healthconnect, a community-based organization responsible for enabling information sharing among healthcare providers in the Greater Houston Area, today ann...

Mental Health America of Greater Houston Selects Tendenci(R) CMS Platform

HOUSTON, Aug. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following an exhaustive review process, Mental Health America of Greater Houston has selected Tendenci (www.tendenci.com) content management system (CMS) to...

Ancestral link places Mexican-Americans at greater risk for metabolic disease

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Mexican-Americans with an ancestral link to Amerindian tribes were found to have higher insulin resistance levels, which is an indication of seve...

Houston Clean Air Network offering real-time online ozone report

(University of Houston) Houstonians can track ozone levels through the Houston Clean Air Network. Sponsored by a three-year $450,000 grant from Houston Endowment, this website provides real-time air q...

University of Houston and Agilent Technologies announce Petroleum Research Collaboration

(University of Houston) The University of Houston and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced they will work together on a research project to further the understanding of the geology and composition of c...

Cancer-associated perineural invasion versus reexcision-associated perineural invasion.

Vascular responses to percutaneous coronary intervention with bare-metal stents and drug-eluting stents a perspective based on insights from pathological and clinical studies.

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E-selectin-targeted porous silicon particle for nanoparticle delivery to the bone marrow.

Skepticism about thrombolytics in stroke is not unreasonable.