An overwhelming feeling of pride swept across the UT Health Science Center San Antonio campus as faculty, staff, students, donors and community leaders celebrated the Jan. 9 announcement that Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., their president and leader for the past eight years, had been named chancellor of The University of Texas System. As Dr. Cigarroa […]
Statistics show that more than half of amputations in the United States each year are caused by diabetes and its complications. With diabetes on the rise, the number of amputations is expected to increase. Additionally, amputees are returning home from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of Aug. 1, 2008, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation […]
Imagine choking and gasping for air every time you fall asleep. Between 18 million and 20 million people in the United States suffer from these frightening symptoms because of a common disorder called sleep apnea. Because of a lack of awareness among both health professionals and the public, up to 90 percent of sufferers aren’t […]
Continuing the momentum of making lives better It is an honor and privilege to serve as interim president of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. I am mindful of both the enormous responsibility that I have assumed as well as the trust that has been placed in me to continue the many advancements […]
Paul McLornan, B.D.S., assistant professor in the Department of Prosthodontics, is the lead investigator of an 18-month study involving sleep apnea patients at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie Murphy Division. Researchers used an oral appliance called the Thornton Adjustable Positioner (TAP) to treat those suffering from moderate to severe sleep apnea. “What […]
What do frequent stoppages in breathing during sleep do to the body? A team of 30 researchers, led by three senior investigators in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is seeking answers in a unique model of sleep apnea in rodents. A five-year, $9.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of […]
You’ll find many husbands and wives who both work at the UT Health Science Center. But you won’t find any like Drs. Monica and Alain Mita. They share the same specialty – medical oncology – with offices at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. They traveled […]
In 2003, after Dallas resident Carolyn Boone had her hysterectomy, doctors discovered a huge and fast-growing tumor, diagnosed as mullerian sarcoma. It spread to her liver and lungs. Her oncologist’s prognosis: The cancer would not respond to chemotherapy or radiation and Boone had maybe a year to live. He referred her to the CTRC at […]
South Texas prepares professionals to serve its own He likes to say that he was the first medical resident to graduate from the Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen. Three other residents graduated alongside Nolan Perez, M.D., in that first class back in 2004, but he jokingly claims the distinction as the first to cross […]
For the first time in its history, the Health Science Center has eclipsed the $200 million mark in grants, contracts and other awards. Despite increasing competition for research dollars awarded by federal agencies, the Health Science Center experienced a jump of 28 percent in funding from the National Institutes of Health during the 2008 state […]