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A person wearing a face mask in a mall.
Whether you feel comfortable in a social setting or not, social interaction requires practice for all, and according to Dr. Jessica Rohr, many people…
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A person walking through an empty airport.
Dr. Jill Weatherhead offers a few tips on how to reduce your risk of getting sick if you’re hitting the road or catching a flight this summer.
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A doctor meeting with a young patient.
The Child Psychiatry Access Network will provide real-time psychiatric consultation services to primary care physicians across Texas as part of the…
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A researcher working on vaccines in the Tropical Medicine laboratories.
Baylor College of Medicine’s fight against COVID-19 has received a boost from Tito’s Handmade Vodka through a $1 million grant from the brand’s…
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Baylor College of Medicine has developed a comprehensive guide to reopening businesses in Houston, offering an outline on what employers can do to…
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A partial cross-cut model of human lungs.
An international consortium of researchers have identified a mutation involved in a person’s susceptibility to lung cancer.
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The National School of Tropical Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development have formed a new partnership with PATH to…
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Two people exercising outdoors while wearing face masks.
With COVID chaos slowly dying down, people may be heading back to work soon. Dr. Asim Shah dives into the anxieties of returning back to a normal…
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BRAIN Initiative to support Baylor doctors studying the neurocircuitry of depression
Researchers led by Dr. Yong Xu have identified a group of unique glucose-sensing neurons in the brain and how they work together to prevent severe…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and four other institutions around the country are working to find out if the vaccine prevents tuberculosis…
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A mother watching Mother's Day messages from family on a phone with help from an adult in a face mask.
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Stacey Rose weighs in on how to celebrate Mother’s Day while also protecting mom's health.
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A person wearing a purple protective face mask while sitting on a motorcycle.
Wearing a non-medical grade face mask is an important way to keep COVID-19 from spreading, but the mask can cause skin irritation and acne breakouts…
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An illustration of the lungs.
Baylor College of Medicine is a research site for a clinical trial evaluating the therapeutic benefit and safety of Tocilizumab (TCZ), an…
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This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.
In an effort to better understand how COVID-19 affects pregnant women, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital…
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A family of three playing at home.
Dr. Robin Kochel explains the challenges families are facing with ASD treatment throughout the pandemic, and offers some solutions.
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Photomicrograph of HER2 targeting T cells seeking, engaging and killing human medulloblastoma cells.
A multi-institutional, international team has developed a novel approach that delivers appropriately-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell…
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