Health & Medicine

New initiative will utilize top experts from throughout the region and country to ensure that the campus’s best health-focused research is transformed into new drugs, devices and health products to benefit patients, health care providers and the public.

Dr. Janet Walkow digs into the dynamic field of drug development.

Jan and Terry Todd reflect on their careers in weight lifting and explore the concept of “Physical Culture.”

This time of year, students are cramming information into the dark corners of their brains just long enough to survive final exams. Later in life, we may come up against similar challenges with learning and memory. Here are six research-based tips for staying mentally sharp.

Risk taking is essential to success, but it can also lead to disastrous consequences.

A nationally recognized leader in psychiatric care and research will steer the landmark partnership between Huston-Tillotson University and the Dell Medical School, bringing new health resources — especially mental health resources — to historically underserved residents of East Austin and other parts of Travis County.

Four former college athletes who walked away from their sports because of concussions discuss their journeys in a panel at the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Dr. Walter Fast, associate professor of medicinal chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Pharmacy, a four-year $2.1 million grant to develop small-molecules that counter antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. If successful, the research could lead to new drugs for treating bacterial infections that…

Two veterans of the pioneering IDEO design firm will lead the Design Institute for Health.

U.S.-born children of undocumented parents experience elevated levels of anxiety, and if their parents were detained or deported, those children are more likely to report depressive symptoms, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.

Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black university in Austin, and the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin announced a landmark partnership Tuesday dedicated to helping underserved residents of Austin get, and stay, healthy.