Health & Medicine

Across the country, in increasing numbers, crime victims are asking for face-to-face meetings with offenders who have hurt them or their families.

The only real way to address either the problem of offensive or defensive medicine is comprehensive health care reform which addresses holistically the various cost drivers. In other words, any real reform must address underuse, misuse and overuse.

Because of impairments in their insulin sensitivity, obese individuals demonstrate different brain responses than their normal-weight peers while completing a challenging cognitive task, according to new research by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

An ancillary focus of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is increasing the quality of care through the incorporation of evidence-based medicine. That act, as well as the 2010 stimulus act, contains provisions that allocate grants to improve the quality of care.

Event: Athletes have allegedly been using steroids and performance-enhancing drugs for more than 20 years, yet it’s only over the past five years that the issue has received significant attention from sports journalists.

Sport has the power to unite citizens regardless of their race, ethnicity or religion. Sport is tightly woven into the fabric of American life — from preschoolers participating in soccer tots and gymnastics, to the culture surrounding high school football, to the myriad business models with professional sports at the center.

In the upcoming mid-term elections, one of the Republicans’ favorite issues is the unpopularity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) — the historic health care reform bill signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010. Shouts of repeal and replace have been heard across the land. Yet, it is impossible to tell…

A University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work researcher has received a four-year $1.5 million grant from the American Cancer Society to look at how neighborhood environments influence obesity and smoking among women and their young children.

Americans are sharply divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and related legislation, which are being used as a wedge in this fall’s elections.

New research funded through The University of Texas at Austin provides evidence of the vicious cycle created when an obese individual overeats to compensate for reduced pleasure from food.

Ron Elber from the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences explains how he and his colleagues use the powerful computing resources of the Texas Advanced Computing Center to build time-accurate 3-D models that illustrate how muscles convert chemical energy into mechanical push and pull.