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Using Heparin After Cardioembolic Stroke
Increases Risk
Of Severe Bleeding
The common practice of giving patients the anticoagulant heparin after one of the most common forms of stroke can increase the risk of serious bleeding, according to researchers in the Department of Neurology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
The research has been released in an online article posted July 14 that will appear in the September 2008 print edition of Archives of Neurology.
Hagberg Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology
at UT Medical School at Houston
Carin A. Hagberg, M.D., professor of anesthesiology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been appointed chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. She has served as the interim department chair since January.
UT Houston Nursing Faculty Member Honored
as One of Country’s Leading Practitioners
Susan D. Ruppert, Ph.D., RN, associate professor of nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, has been inducted as a 2008 fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
UT Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel of HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions.
The weak spot is hidden in the HIV envelope protein gp120. This protein is essential for HIV attachment to host cells, which initiate infection and eventually lead to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS.