/ A state public health lab in Austin in 2014. The new TEPHI agency will partner with Texas Department of State Health Services in future pandemic responses.
The COVID-19 pandemic caught many in Texas off guard. And poor understanding of the situation statewide, as well as piecemeal state, local and federal responses, had deadly consequences. So far, over 50,000 Texans have died from COVID-19 and over 2.5 million people in the state have contracted the illness.
But a new state agency, dubbed the “Texas CDC,” will aim to help Texas recover from the current pandemic, and be better prepared for the next one, says Eric Boerwinkle. He is dean of UT Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Public Health – the institution that will lead the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute, or TEPHI. Boerwinkle says UT Health is ideal because it has campuses across the state, meaning it has the potential to efficiently respond to a major public health emergency.
The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer's disease, late in life is associated with abnormal blood levels of dozens of proteins up to five years earlier, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer s disease, late in life is associated with abnormal blood levels of dozens of proteins up to five years earlier.
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