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UT Health San Antonio faculty, staff and students with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should inform their supervisor and seek necessary and appropriate medical treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendations to follow the normal respiratory virus return-to-work process. This includes returning to normal work activities when symptoms are improving…

Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu Content contributed by Juanita Alvarez-Hernandez SAN ANTONIO, March 7, 2024 – The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has secured approximately $16.4 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas the past six months, attracting three top cancer researchers […]

Content contributed by Steven Lee The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has secured approximately $16.4 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) since last August, which will be utilized to help advance research into cancers that affect children and adolescents as […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE        March 12, 2024                        Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT:        “Match Day 2024” will mark an important milestone in a medical student’s academic journey. It is the day students learn where they will go for their residency after graduation. This […]

In February 2024, students in the Wilderness and Survival Medicine course at UT Health San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine tested their emergency medicine skills during a four-day trip to Big Bend National Park where they role-played seven potentially life-and-death scenarios to determine how they should respond.

According to a report by the American Cancer Society released in January, colorectal cancer is now the primary cause of cancer-related deaths among young men under 50 and the second leading cause among women in the same age group. The rise in younger men and women developing colon cancer is a trend Alicia Logue, MD, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 13, 2024 Contacts: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu Monica Taylor, 210-450-8970, taylorm1@uthscsa.edu MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT:          A special ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held to celebrate the opening of the new UT Health Outpatient and Surgery Center at Kyle Seale Parkway (UT Health at Kyle Seale Parkway). The event marks the completion of the five-…

  Can laws and policies help establish health care equity in our communities? Keynote speaker Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, leader in public health and civil rights law, believes so. The 21st Annual Frank Bryant Jr., MD, Memorial Distinguished Lecture is back this spring, providing yet another thoughtful discussion on ethics in health care. The free […]

Contact Monica Taylor, 210-450-8970, taylorm1@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, March 14, 2024 — It is with profound sadness that The University of Texas of Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) announces that William L. Henrich, MD, MACP, president of UT Health San Antonio, passed away this morning, March 14, 2024. There will be […]