Leaders from Verily, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Texas A&M explained why rural America will be home to the greatest healthcare technology innovations in the near future.
The Texas A&M Center for Phage Technology is leveraging the evolutionary battle fought for billions of years between phages and bacteria to combat bacterial infections in humans that have become resistant to antibiotics.
Psychological & Brain Science professor Mary Meagher served as psychologist for a Department of Health and Human Services task force responding to the opioid crisis.
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center An American has a heart attack about every 40 seconds. Many factors contribute to how well a patient does after a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, to use the technical term. The two biggest factors…
(Texas A&M University Health Science Center) By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Research is underway to identify infants at risk of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome shortly after birth The opioid epidemic doesn’t discriminate—people of all ages, races, and genders are affected. However,…
Some people love apple cider vinegar and believe it to be an aid to weight loss. (Shutterstock) By Gabriel Neal, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, for The Conversation When my brother and I were kids back in the ‘80s, we loved going to Long John Silver’s. But it…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Fruit fly larvae can taste ribonucleosides, the building blocks of RNA, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS Biology by Texas A&M College of Medicine researchers. Hubert Amrein, PhD, and Dushyant Mishra, PhD, the lead…
A poster from a world summit in Hong Kong on preparing for worldwide pandemics in June 2010. Despite efforts to develop plans, none is yet in place. (Vincent Yu/AP Photo) By Christine Crudo Blackburn, Andrew Natsios and Gerald W. Parker, Texas A&M University Bush School of Government &…