Featured News
For TMCx alum Trusted Health, “nurses aren’t a commodity”
The San Francisco-based company is gaining attention for its innovative approach to nurse staffing
‘Best intentions’ won’t solve implicit bias in health care
Texas Medical Center institutions are creating arenas of awareness and understanding to address bias
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Research | By Alexandra BeckerTargeting triple negative breast cancer after chemotherapy fails
- Research | By Shanley Pierce
FDA: More men needed in breast cancer clinical trials
- Events | By Britni R. McAshan
Texans players kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Houston Methodist visits
- Innovation | By Ryan Holeywell
U.S. government to biotech: You’re facing threats—but we can help
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Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Dwright Fowler Davis, who is an advocate and entrepreneur. He served from 1998 to 2002: https://t.co/6tIlvbnFwb
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RT @UTHealth_SBMI: Our special guests, faculty members and students join Dr. Susan Fenton as she speaks about some special informatics cour…
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Events
- OCTOBER 22, 2019
1st Annual GCC Translational Imaging Symposium
- OCTOBER 22, 2019
SHRM Talent Acquisition Specialty Credential
- OCTOBER 24, 2019
20th Annual Chronic Illness and Disability Conference: Transition from Pediatric to Adult-Based Care
- OCTOBER 24, 2019
Heart & Vascular Grand Rounds -Navin Kapur, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI
- OCTOBER 26, 2019
Cancer Research Institute Immunotherapy Patient Summit
- OCTOBER 28, 2019
Texas Children’s Hospital Pediatric Radiology AI Sumposium
- OCTOBER 29, 2019
GCC ADME: Lead Characterization and Optimization Conference
Spotlights
Houston Methodist CIO Roberta Schwartz talks about innovation and surviving breast cancer
- Major General Rick Noriega leads Ronald McDonald House Houston to greater impact
- Executive chef Hugo Ortego talks Mexican cuisine, buying local and his gratitude to the city of Houston
- Astronaut and TMC Board Member Bernard A. Harris Jr. reflects on the moon landing
- Arnold Ventures is developing innovative solutions to persistent problems
- Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale talks medicine, philanthropy and Hurricane Harvey
Vitals
Psychedelics are back, man
- High risks and high costs for young blood donations to older people
- White meat no healthier than red meat when it comes to “bad cholesterol”
- Is kratom, the popular herbal supplement, dangerous?
- What to expect from a doctor’s visit in 20 years
- FDA decides not to ban textured breast implants linked to cancer
Curated
Outbreak, a Smithsonian exhibit about epidemics, spreads to The Health Museum
- Dancing for balance: Parkinson’s patients build physical strength and a supportive community
- The River program, part of TUTS, extends arts access to people of all abilities
- Artist Gillian Wearing challenges selfie culture in exhibit at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts
- Houston Methodist sound dome offers behavioral health patients a non-pharmaceutical way to unwind
- A new HMNS exhibit inspires viewers to take a fresh look at nature
Innovation
Health Policy
‘Best intentions’ won’t solve implicit bias in health care
- Mumps outbreak causing illness in U.S. migrant detention facilities
- In the age of vaccine skepticism, doctors are developing a new skill: the power of persuasion
- New book from TMC policy experts explores the question, “How can we fix health care in America?”
- Physicians call for policy solutions following mass casualty shootings
- What’s behind the nursing shortage? How can we fix it?
