Of health insurance, tea parties, babies and bathwater
Diana DiNitto is Cullen Trust Centennial Professor in Alcohol Studies and Education and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Social Work. She is the author of “Social Welfare:...
View ArticleThe good and the bad of the new health care act
Ronen Avraham is Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law at the School of Law. His primary research interests are the economic analysis of torts and medical malpractice law, specifically how liability...
View ArticleToward a better quality of health care
Ronen Avraham is Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law at the School of Law. His primary research interests are the economic analysis of torts and medical malpractice law, specifically how liability...
View ArticleControlling the rising costs of health care
Ronen Avraham is Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law at the School of Law. His primary research interests are the economic analysis of torts and medical malpractice law, specifically how liability...
View ArticleWhat will fix the health care system?
Ronen Avraham is Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law at the School of Law. His primary research interests are the economic analysis of torts and medical malpractice law, specifically how liability...
View ArticleAging in America: The Latino perspective
Jacqueline Angel, professor of sociology and public affairs, and colleagues — with the support of the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging — are undertaking research that will...
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The big question in biomedicine
We hear a lot of doom-and-gloom about the future. The world will be too hot, too crowded. There will be too few resources and more competition for them. We asked University of Texas at Austin...
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High-Tech Tattoos Redefine Health Care Solutions
Nanshu Lu is the mind behind the design of the electronic tattoo, an intricate arrangement of serpentine-like micro-wires and silicon that measures vital signs and muscle movement. [Images courtesy of...
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In Search of Peace in the War on Breast Cancer
This is the first story in the yearlong series “In Pursuit of Health,” covering medical news and research happening across the university. Breast cancer cells under a microscope. [Credit: Ed Uthman]...
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Reinventing the ER, with Help from Assembly Lines
This story is part of our yearlong series “In Pursuit of Health,” covering medical news and research happening across the university. With management input from McCombs School of Business senior...
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