New UST Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality
The Nesti Center for Faith and Culture is launching a new program to equip students with the truth of Catholic intellectual tradition as they tackle controversial subjects of gender and sexuality in professional spheres.

Record Syphilis Cases
Syphilis, a dangerous and potentially deadly sexually transmitted disease (STD), was nearly eradicated in the 1990s but increased by 17% last year and 80% in recent years. It does not go away on its own but can be treated successfully with medication. It is preventable by keeping sex in marriage as God designed it. There were 2.5 million cases of STDs reported in the USA in 2022. 3700 babies were born with syphilis in 2022, as it can be passed from mother to infant during birth.

UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences
Jair Soares, MD, PhD a renowned academic leader and physician scientist in the field of psychiatry has been names the founding dean of UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences which will have its first students in the fall of 2025. Read more here.

Youth Mental Health Worldwide
“That youth mental health is in such dire straits is particularly striking given that many measures of global physical health in young people are improving,” wrote the authors of an accompanying editorial.