AAMC: Medical burnout: Breaking bad

June 8, 2021

Dr. Dharam Kaushik, Urology, accepted AAMC Managing Editor Gabrielle Redford’s challenge to expand his original piece, published in Lancet EClinicalMedicine, adding action points regarding the burnout suffered by health care workers. Read the story.



Texas Standard: Metal ions and COVID-19

June 8, 2021

Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Biochemistry/Structural Biology/Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, spoke to Texas Public Radio’s Bonnie Petrie and that program was repeated for broadcast by the Texas Standard. The topic centered on the recent published findings in Nature Communications about the COVID virus using metal ions, like magnesium and calcium in our bodies, as a disguise […]



SFGATE.com: Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself, study shows

June 4, 2021

Dr. Yogesh Gupta and other researchers, Biochemistry/Structural Biology/Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, have discovered a mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 exploits changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itself in the body; varying concentrations of metal ions — positively charged atoms such as magnesium, manganese and calcium — are observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Read the […]