The Texas A&M Healthy South Texas Medication Assistance Program has assisted hundreds of people with no or inadequate insurance obtain their prescription medications, including insulin.
Research shows South and Midwest regions have a greater need for nutrition education, early screening and expansion of specialized outpatient care than other regions.
By Rachel Rose, Texas A&M University College of Engineering There are certain diseases, such as cancer and Type 1 diabetes, that affect many of us directly. These diseases can not only be difficult to manage, but difficult to reverse, with effects that can be detrimental to a person’s quality…
Nurse giving blood sugar test to patient in home. (Getty Images) By Jennifer Reiley, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Three researchers from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering have received funding to develop a wearable, noninvasive, reliable, inexpensive and proactive device to detect and prevent hypoglycemic events in diabetic…
(Shutterstock) By Drew Thompson, Texas A&M University College Of Engineering Dr. Phanourios Tamamis, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research on potential…
By Paul Schattenberg, Texas A&M University AgriLife A study by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the University of Colorado found male-only rat models used for studying obesity are limited and don’t address critical factors for understanding it. The study can be found in Frontiers. “Obesity negatively…