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Like other districts in Central Texas and across the state, the Hays school district has cut back on physical education over the years.

Rare, Nonsynonymous Variant in the Smooth Muscle-Specific Isoform of Myosin Heavy Chain, MYH11 , R247C, Alters Force Generation in the Aorta and Phenotype of Smooth Muscle Cells From the Department of Internal Medicine , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX; Department of Physiology , University of Texas Southwestern ... (more)

Newswise - John D. Reveille, M.D., director of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, has been elected president of the Pan American League of Associations of Rheumatology , which represents the national rheumatology societies in 21 countries with a ... (more)

Newswise - Every year, approximately 795,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke and the late U.S. Senator and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen was one of them.

Newswise - About 3 percent of the babies born in the United States have a birth defect.

A recent study performed by Dr. William Ondo, a professor of neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, suggests that Botox could be used to treat nighttime teeth grinding, a common condition for which there is no established treatment.A Dental guards are used to prevent damage to the teeth but they do not prevent the ... (more)

Newswise - Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are launching a new research study to find the best way to give blood transfusions for severely injured patients predicted to require massive blood transfusions upon arrival to the Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center emergency department.

The state of Texas is facing a massive shortage of doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals in the coming years, according to estimates by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

There is no quick fix for the state's ongoing shortage of doctors, nurses and other health care workers, a legislative panel meeting in Houston was told Tuesday.

From the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , Houston, TX; Department of Epidemiology , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Seattle Children's Hospital , Seattle, WA; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati, OH; Children's Mercy Hospital , Kansas City, MO; Children's Hospital of ... (more)

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

From The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston ; Center for Human Genetics and the Texas Therapeutics Institute , The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, ... (more)

The human body does a great job of generating new cells to replace dead ones but it is not perfect.

As with anything new, most physicians go into implementation of an electronic health record system with certain expectations.

FRIDAY, April 27 -- Driving can be a major factor in elderly people's quality of life, affecting their mental health and overall well-being, an expert says.

The best place to enjoy a breath of fresh air may be a city bus, if Rice University students have their way.