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If you plan to travel during the holidays, keep this advice from the Texas A&M College of Medicine in mind for a memorable — and safe — trip.

Sharing electronic medical records broadly could identify trends as well as mistakes, but it also poses privacy concerns.

A team from the University of California, Los Angeles won the $30,000 first place prize in a competition that focused on chronic pain and the treatment of this condition through long-term opioid therapy.

A devastating diagnosis prompted an Army veteran to enroll at the Texas A&M School of Public Health to bring health information to underserved communities.

Since 2010, 113 rural hospitals across the country have closed, with 18% being in Texas.

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded five research grants to faculty-researchers in the colleges of Medicine and Science, AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M Health Science Center.

The competition, which includes a $52,500 prize package, will showcase students’ analytical abilities to solve a real-world business problem.

A team that included researchers looked at the categorization of high- and low-risk patients as a spectrum, rather than a black-and-white decision – shifting away from traditional pattern recognition techniques.

The Texas A&M College of Nursing leads the Board of Regents-approved center to facilitate research, education and outreach in forensic nursing.

Dr. Amy Waer has served as executive dean for education and academic programs for the college since 2018.