President’s Gala celebrates military and health collaborations, and establishes chair in military health research.
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On battlefields around the world, they faced their own mortality multiple times a day as explosions erupted around them. Today their mission is of a different kind.
Momentum continues to grow for the Biggs Institute for Alzheimer and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Therapy may help control worldwide scourge of schistosomiasis.
Related stories: How we got here Living livelier: Another patient’s story Barshop Institute: A timeline Ramiro Guerra, 90, does yard work whenever the weather’s good. Other times he is inside, often sleeping and sometimes agitated. The U.S. veteran began to forget things in 2006, the year his wife of 57 years, Elida, passed away. “It […]
Veronica Carrillo, 17, and her mother, Paula, waited in the emergency department at University Hospital for the doctor’s diagnosis. The avid soccer midfielder had gone up to head the ball in a game when, in midair, the side of her head collided with the forehead of another player. Skulls are hard; no ball could make that […]
In a flap of skull the size of a pinhead, Martin Paukert, M.D., mounts and seals a thin window onto an anesthetized mouse. This window will allow Dr. Paukert and his team to monitor, in real time, effects of stimuli to the brain of a conscious mouse while it walks on a tiny treadmill. That’s something […]
Imagine you are a soldier, patrolling the streets of a war-ravaged city. Without warning, a suicide bomber sets off an improvised explosive device 50 yards from where you stand. The powerful blast flips you backward into a wall. In seconds you open your eyes. How are you seeing? Will this affect your vision permanently? Researchers […]
Before Jackson Pineda was born, doctors told his parents, Gerald and Jennifer, that their son’s kidneys would not last past the age of 10. A prenatal ultrasound showed one enlarged kidney and the other, they believed, would not be strong enough to make up the difference. To the couple’s amazement, the doctors’ forecast proved accurate […]
Nanette Hathaway well remembers when the pain began. It was Christmas 2009, and she had flown down from Seattle, Wash., to visit her daughter in San Antonio. “I was in bed when a sharp pain hit my vocal cords and never went away,” she said. “The pain was so strong that I couldn’t talk for […]