Spice it up with our sweet potato, carrot and turmeric soup: a healthy recipe that also fights cancer. Ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 5 carrots, chopped 1 apple, chopped 2 sweet potatoes, chopped 2 turnips, chopped 2 tsp grated ginger 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth ½ tsp turmeric ½ […]
The air we breathe proved almost fatal for one boy struggling to survive childhood leukemia.
A $1 million gift from Ed and Linda Whitacre will support a pilot cancer therapeutic clinical trials program.
Two gifts support military health programs.
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 […]