SUMMER 2018


IN THIS ISSUE

Dementia


Six minutes in a Virtual Dementia Tour is a descent into chaos, misery and another world. The experience offers caregivers enhanced empathy for those struggling with memory loss.

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Joey Libby lifting weights

Cured


The road to survival and the journey of discovery intersect to forge one of the greatest successes in scientific research—a cure for hepatitis C.

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medical student talking with patient

Dignity, love, compassion


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.

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Treasures of the P.I. Nixon Library


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.

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Trauma surgeons Lillian Liao, M.D., M.P.H. ’04, and Ronald Stewart, M.D. ’85, in an operating room

Operating in the new normal


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.

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mouse with cancer cells

Revolutionary new tool could change pancreatic cancer therapies


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.

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Is stroke in your genes?


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.

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Dr. Svatec looks through microscope

Changing the standard of cancer care


Bladder cancer patients who received the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine had significantly lower recurrence of their cancer, a clinical trial has revealed.

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cannabis

Medical cannabis approved


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.

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image of body attacked by virus

Chlamydia in your gut could protect you


Exposing the gut to chlamydia protects against subsequent infection in the genital tract and other tissues, researchers have discovered.

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