Dear Friends, Colleagues and Fellow Texans,
The Texas Health Journal is something new for The University of Texas System. It's an ongoing digital effort to tell the story of how the 14 institutions that make up the UT System are improving the health of the people of Texas and expanding the base of health knowledge and practice on a national and international scale.
In each issue of the newsletter, we'll be doing two things. One is to feature work from different UT institutions that's being done in one specific health area. For this inaugural issue, our feature story is on the intersection of precision medicine and mental health. The other goal is to highlight some of the most exciting and innovative work that's being done across all health areas.
More broadly, the Texas Health Journal mission is to facilitate the awareness, conversation, communication and collaboration that are essential to every aspect of health, from face-to-face encounters between doctors and patients to multi-institutional research projects to population level analyses of big data sets. We're all in this together, and the Texas Health Journal is a small part of the larger dedication of the UT System to improving the lives of Texans and people all over the world through education, research and health care.
We would also like the newsletter to be a vehicle for dialogue with you, so please email us with any thoughts, questions, or suggestions you have.
Best,
David Lakey, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Population Health
The University of Texas System
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Across the UT institutions, psychiatrists and psychiatric researchers are working to advance the field of mental health. They're zeroing in on which treatments work for which patients, diagnosing earlier and with more precision, and working to reform the mental health systems that struggle to meet increasing and overwhelming demand.
NEW SCIENCE | IN THE COMMUNITY
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Ryan Danton went from just beyond death’s grip to a lifesaving treatment that has now brought him to the pinnacle of his dreams: a college degree and a future he once believed was not possible.
NEW SCIENCE
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People can ingest aflatoxins in contaminated corn, nuts, rice, sesame seeds, wheat and some spices.
NEW SCIENCE
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The first live-attenuated Zika vaccine completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose.
NEW SCIENCE
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The Summit brought together all 14 UT institutions, as well as partner organizations, state and local agencies, and other Texas universities and colleges.
IN THE COMMUNITY
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MD Anderson researcher Jim Allison has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2017.
NEW SCIENCE | RECOGNITION
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Compared to children in the control group, bipolar patients and unaffected offspring of bipolar parents had genetic alterations that can influence their response to stress.
NEW SCIENCE
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Wells is chair and associate professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
RECOGNITION
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The Board of Regents gave their approval to add the building to UT System’s Capital Improvement Program.
IN THE COMMUNITY
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Cancer is one of the most feared diagnoses for anyone. But researchers across multiple disciplines at UTSA are tackling the disease—and making serious headway toward its defeat.
NEW SCIENCE
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The novel approach would also allow Type 2 diabetics to stop insulin shots.
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What if new technology could help doctors keep patients with Alzheimer’s at home rather than in a hospital? What if early intervention replaced ERs for people in need of mental health care?
NEW SCIENCE | IN THE COMMUNITY
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Texas Health Journal wants your feedback. Please email me with thoughts, corrections, comments and suggestions for stories we should cover. In upcoming issues we'll be focusing on these topics:
- Tobacco
- Regenerative Medicine
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Mobile Medicine (i.e. medicine that goes out to where the patients are, not medicine done through mobile phones)
- Infectious Disease
- Rural Medicine
We'd love to hear about work being done at your institution in these realms, and are particularly interested in work that involves collaboration across UT institutions.
Best,
Daniel Oppenheimer
Editor, Texas Health Journal
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