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Apr 12, 2024 | statesman.com | UTHealth Houston

A decorated transplant surgeon in Houston, Texas is being accused of depriving his patients of new livers by exploiting a government database and changing their records. Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr. has practiced medicine since 1981, and with "extensive experience in liver transplantation," he's performed over 800 procedures throughout his decades-long career, according to his bio on the Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center website.

Jan 20, 2024 | mjhnews.com | Caitie Barkley |UTHealth Houston

BY Caitie Barkley, UTHealth HoustonCharles S. Cox Jr., MD, Professor in the Department of Pediatric Surgery with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Linda Ewing-Cobbs, PhD, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Nov 24, 2023 | academic.oup.com | UTHealth Houston

A modest weight gain following ART initiation appears to occur among people with HIV (PWH) with all modern regimens,1–5 and is often most pronounced among women and persons of colour.6 Recent reports suggest that ART containing integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs) and tenofovir alafenamide may be associated with greater weight gain with ART initiation or switch, in comparison to some, but not all, non-INSTI/non-tenofovir alafenamide regimens.7 A smaller proportion of PWH initiating...

Sep 25, 2023 | academic.oup.com | Cape Girardeau |UTHealth Houston

This editorial refers to ‘Cardiovascular adverse events and prognosis in patients with hematologic malignancies and breast cancer receiving anticancer agents: Kurume-CREO Registry insights’, by T. Shibata et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwad210.

Apr 11, 2023 | arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com | UTHealth Houston |Biomedical Engineering

Patient and specimensSerum samples from the Prospective Study of Outcome in Ankylosing Spondylitis (PSOAS) cohort UTHealth biorepository were examined [16]. This multicenter cohort was initiated in 2003 and includes patients from UTHealth Houston, University of California San Francisco, the NIH Clinical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the Queensland University of Technology (Australia).