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Houston Methodist Hospital was named to U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll for the eighth time and is the No. 1 hospital in Texas. This also is the 32nd year in a row that Houston Methodist Hospital was ranked in at least one specialty. Read more.

 

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers at Houston Methodist studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria called Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis. These infections range in severity from strep throat to flesh-eating disease. The findings of this study are described in a paper in the journal mBio. Read more. 

 

 

Houston Methodist researchers have developed an advanced mathematical model that predicts how novel treatment combinations could significantly significantly improve treatment efficacy and extend progression-free survival for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer. Read more.