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Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 19, 2023 – UT Health San Antonio has been recognized as a “Digital Health Most Wired” organization by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), an organization serving senior health care information technology leaders. The award is based on an annual survey designed to identify […]
Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions The 50 families stretch from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the United States and China. Each family has a child who is paralyzed from a mutation in a single gene named Contactin-Associated Protein 1 (Cntnap1). The children are locked inside their bodies, […]
October is Health Literacy Month, and Health Confianza, a communitywide health literacy nonprofit providing education, workforce training, health information and resources to the San Antonio area, has introduced an online resource with preventive health information. The new online resource was created with health literacy principles and input from community health workers and UT Health San […]
Afaf Saliba Jaafar knows firsthand the importance of improving the quality of life for those suffering from challenging medical conditions. Her 12-year-old son Brandon Jaafar has severe autism. “The discovery of therapeutics is indeed a lengthy and complex process,” she said. “Families with loved ones suffering from a certain disease often feel a sense of […]
Announcement by American College of Surgeons Edited for UT Health San Antonio Newsroom BOSTON (Oct. 23, 2023) — Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS, trauma surgeon, professor and chairman of surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, received the Distinguished Service Award — the American College of Surgeons’ highest annual honor […]
UT Health San Antonio’s Caring for the Caregivers program was mentioned in this news segment. Watch Now
Lisa Cleveland, PhD, APRN, professor of nursing at UT Health San Antonio who oversees the state’s overdose prevention education program and the More Narcan Please distribution program, was quoted in this story. Read More
UT Dentistry, the dental practice of the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry, recently received $100,000 from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to provide necessary care to local veterans without dental benefits who are undergoing treatment for blood cancers. Veterans face challenges from exposures to hazardous substances they encountered during their military service, […]
Curtis Bone, board-certified addiction medicine physician and assistant professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Family and Community Medicine, was interviewed for this news segment. Listen Now
Shraddha Dalwadi, MD, Radiation Oncology, Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, was interviewed for this news segment. Watch Now