- Chief Medical Officer for UT Health Physicians, Dr. Robert Leverence, talks about hospitals across the city with COVID-positive patients, including children, approaching critical capacity and the importance of getting vaccinated as school begins. Watch and read the full story on KENS5
- Dr. Tess Barton, a pediatric specialist with UT Health Physicians, discusses the new mask guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics for this 2021-2022 academic year. Watch and read the story on KSAT.
- Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, also referred to as UT Health San Antonio, The University of Washington at Seattle and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have launched NIRVANA, a National Institutes of Health-funded pilot clinical study to treat acute kidney injury (AKI) in COVID-19 patients.
- Brain scans show similarities between people who've recovered from COVID-19 and those with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at UT Health San Antonio are finding that some of the same genes that increase a person's risk for getting severe COVID-19 also increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Read the full story on NPR
- Dr. Jason Bowling, infectious disease specialist, spoke to Spectrum News 1 Texas viewers about how the COVID-19 vaccine can help people still struggling months after contracting it. It’s a condition called Long COVID, where people diagnosed with COVID-19 have long-term symptoms. Read the full story from Spectrum News
- Dr. Katherine Bartush, orthopaedic sports medicine specialist, talks about staying safe in the summer heat, the symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, who is most at risk and how to avoid heat-related injuries. Watch the interview on Fox San Antonio
- As the Tokyo 2021 Olympics begin, Dr. Jason Bowling, infectious disease specialist, talks about the delta variant in relation to the U.S. Olympic gymnast who tested positive, why vaccinated people can still get COVID-19 and general advice for people who are scared to get vaccinated. Watch the video on Kens 5
- Dr. Tess Barton, pediatric specialist, and Dr. Jason Bowling, infectious disease specialist, are quoted in this San Antonio Report story that explains what you should know about the delta variant and how you can slow the spread and protect yourself. Read the full story
- Dr. Katherine Bartush orthopaedic sports medicine specialist, spoke to News 4 San Antonio Today, to find out ways we can avoid heat-related injuries. Some symptoms of a heat injury include: •Heavy sweating •Muscle cramping •Cold clammy skin •Nausea or vomiting •Confusion Watch the full story
- In a U.S. and Swiss study, nearly all patients with cancer developed good immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines three to four weeks after receiving their second dose, but the fact that a small group of the patients exhibited no response raised questions about how their protection against the virus will be addressed moving forward. Among the 131 patients studied, 94% developed antibodies to the coronavirus. Seven high-risk patients did not.
