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Dignity, love, compassion
August 23, 2018
Student-faculty clinics at Haven for Hope provide emergency dental care and vaccines and treat chronic pain and skin ailments. They also offer students lessons in empathy.
Treasures of the P.I. Nixon Library
August 23, 2018
The collective wisdom of thousands of years of medical exploration lies waiting to be discovered anew in some of the rarest and most beautiful texts ever created.
Operating in the new normal
August 23, 2018
Trauma surgeons Ronald Stewart, M.D. ’85, and Lillian Liao, M.D., M.P.H. ’04, respond to emergency calls routinely. But this call, of a mass shooting in nearby Sutherland Springs, made U.S. history.
Revolutionary new tool could change pancreatic cancer therapies
August 23, 2018
A new tool is urgently needed to find a better treatment for pancreatic cancer. One researcher believes he has found one that provides a truer picture of the disease and how it affects humans.
Is stroke in your genes?
August 23, 2018
A landmark study of DNA from people around the world identified new genetic risk factors for stroke. It is the largest genetic study of stroke to date, and could lead to stroke drug development and dementia treatment.
Changing the standard of cancer care
August 23, 2018
Bladder cancer patients who received the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine had significantly lower recurrence of their cancer, a clinical trial has revealed.
Medical cannabis approved
August 23, 2018
When an FDA advisory committee approved the first cannabidiol medicine for prescription use in epilepsy, it based its decision on recommendations of a UT Health San Antonio researcher.
Chlamydia in your gut could protect you
August 23, 2018
Exposing the gut to chlamydia protects against subsequent infection in the genital tract and other tissues, researchers have discovered.
Power to the patient
August 23, 2018
Personalized medicine is expected to be the new normal in medicine in the future. A new master’s degree in personalized molecular medicine will train students in these novel approaches.
Herbal hope for oral cancer
August 23, 2018
A compound found in plants may serve as a preventive agent and treatment for oral cancer.
The trauma of youth
August 23, 2018
Nearly 4 in 5 Latino youth suffer at least one traumatic childhood experience such as poverty or abuse, a new study shows.
Stemming the spread of cancer
August 23, 2018
Scientists at UT Health San Antonio and UTHealth in Houston were awarded millions in grants to expand studies of a therapeutic antibody to stem the spread of breast cancer to the bone.
Matchmaking
August 23, 2018
This year, 203 students from the Long School of Medicine were matched to 85 residency programs across the nation. They were also part of something special, as 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the school.
Research gets a $24 million boost
August 23, 2018
UT Health San Antonio has garnered highly competitive National Institutes of Health grants to speed the translation of research discovery into improved patient care.
Innovation in research and education recognized
August 23, 2018
The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund has awarded $1.45 million to support three innovative research projects and one pilot research project.















