Health & Medicine

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing and two local health care entities were recently honored with a Texas State Senate Resolution for their efforts to address the shortage of primary health care providers through the creation of a family nurse practitioner residency program.

Graduating student Joe Malacara is a former migrant worker who followed his mentor’s path to a pharmacy career.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing is celebrating National Nurses Month with an Honor a Nurse fundraising program to give recognition to nurses who have made a difference.

Professor Jacqueline Angel discusses her research on the economic and cultural aspects of caring for the growing population of older Latinos.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has received grants totaling $842,000 from the St. David’s Foundation to expand its nurse practitioner program and provide much needed primary care support.

Event: Innovation in Health Care Delivery Systems Symposium When: April 21-22

A growing number of Texans will have difficulty accessing mental health services unless steps are taken now to address a critical shortage of mental health professionals, according to a policy brief (PDF) published by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and Methodist Healthcare Ministries.

Faculty from The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded $4.7 million from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) for research to further understand cancer biology and develop new cancer treatments.

In this Q-and-A, pharmacy student Saadia Ali discusses her research on Complementary Alternative Medicine and the prevalence of its use.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has awarded $446,615 in grants for four policy projects to improve mental health services for children and adults across Texas.

Bottling up emotions can make people more aggressive, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota that was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Army.

Human Ecology Professor Elizabeth Gershoff delves into the impact of spanking on children and why it’s an unacceptable means of discipline.