Fall ’17 / Winter ’18
For health and hope
A helping hand can save a life. For 20 years, the School of Nursing has provided health care and education to youth in crisis at Healy-Murphy Center.
Read More ›Locked in
Some children narrowly escape the horrors of drowning only to face a different kind of suffering: paralyzed, trapped inside their own bodies.
Read More ›Dear doctor, get well soon
The specter of physician burnout, depression and suicide leads to change in training future doctors.
Read More ›Game your way out of pain: Pain management
Have you ever tried to make time go by faster by exercising to music? Distraction techniques may hold the key to pain management.
Read More ›Spice it up
A little ginger, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon can go a long way toward improving your health. A new cookbook aims to help you live longer.
Read More ›Noah's FLASHY new hand
Noah Gutierrez wants to be super-fast, like his favorite superhero, the Flash. A new 3-D printed hand is giving him a boost.
Read More ›Deal targets breast cancer, spinal cord injury treatments
UT Health San Antonio has entered into a landmark licensing deal to develop new treatments for breast cancer and spinal cord injuries.
Read More ›A new home
A new era of aging research began when UT Health San Antonio broke ground on a new and expanded Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies.
Read More ›Fine-tuning cancer therapies
The best way to treat a cancer is to understand it. Researchers have added to the understanding of a broad swath of cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia and brain cancer.
Read More ›A surgery-free option
Radiation therapy may be as good as bladder surgery at helping patients survive advanced bladder cancer, a new study shows.
Read More ›Talk your way to sleep
Insomnia is a widespread problem in the military. A new study found that a form of talk therapy was highly effective with an active-duty population experiencing insomnia.
Read More ›A first for kids
About 10 percent of childhood cancer can be attributed to genetics. Scientists are now using genomic analysis to identify risk factors and diagnose cancer at an early age in children.
Read More ›Snail fever
Schistosomiasis is an infection of the larval worms of freshwater snails. More than a quarter of a billion people are infected. Combination drug therapy may hold the answer to containing the threat.
Read More ›Stop breast cancer in its tracks
Researchers are developing a new, first-in-class agent that has stopped the growth of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in its tracks.
Read More ›Clear as water
Zebrafish may hold the key to understanding how children who have a rare muscle cancer relapse and don't respond to treatment.
Read More ›Making strides
The School of Health Professions is expanding its reach in South Texas, as well as in new disciplines.
Read More ›Care from someone who knows
Vidal Balderas, D.D.S., M.P.H., associate professor in the School of Dentistry, uses his experience of growing up as a migrant worker to deliver compassionate dental care in high-need communities.
Read More ›A promise we live by
Each of us has our own role to play, contributing through a prism of our personal assets to light our mutual paths. But what we all share in common—what binds us together—is the wish to serve others.
Read More ›Dean appointed to Long School of Medicine
Robert A. Hromas, M.D., FACP, has been named dean of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio and vice president for medical affairs.
Read More ›Cancer center director named
Ruben A. Mesa, M.D., was named director of the UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center.
Read More ›Smile wide
The School of Dentistry received a $2.4 million grant for the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program.
Read More ›A boost in the fight against cancer
Cancer prevention programs and faculty recruitment initiatives got a $3.5 million boost from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.
Read More ›Leader of the pack
The National Cancer Institute has selected UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center as one of nine institutional members of the NCI’s elite Cancer Systems Biology Consortium.
Read More ›With honors
Five faculty members were honored with the 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from The University of Texas System.
Read More ›When devastation hits
When Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast in August as a Category 4 storm, the university community immediately responded.
Read More ›Helping hearts
More than 1,500 attended the 2017 President’s Gala, which established the Lacie and Joe Gorder President’s Endowment in Heart Disease Research.
Read More ›Championing rising investigators
The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund approved more than $2.3 million in new research funding for rising investigators at UT Health San Antonio.
Read More ›Supporting military families
A national report indicates that the prevalence of depression among military caregivers may be up to four times higher than the U.S. adult population.
Read More ›New network for veteran support
UT Health San Antonio has launched an initiative to increase the number of community clinicians qualified to provide the leading therapies in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read More ›Meeting a need
The Meadows Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to the Transitional Care Clinic, an innovative psychiatric program operated by the Department of Psychiatry.
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