The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s behavioral health services have moved to a new location convenient for patients. The UT Health San Antonio Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, located at 5788 Eckhert Rd., is home to all child, adolescent and adult psychiatry, the Transitional Care Clinic (TCC) and the New Opportunities for Wellness (NOW) clinic. General psychiatry […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 and recognize health care organizations that exemplify best practices through their adoption, […]
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UT Health San Antonio was awarded Best Company Perks & Benefits by Comparably, an employer recruitment, culture and branding site. The university received this award out of tens of thousands of large companies based on real-time feedback from current employees over the past 12 months. This award measures how satisfied employees are with their benefits, programs […]
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UT Health San Antonio has earned a “Best Company Perks & Benefits” award from Comparably, a website that compiles job listings and company culture information, based on feedback from surveys of its current employees. This marks the third award UT Health San Antonio has received from Comparably, after receiving “Best Company for Diversity” (December 2022) […]
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Hundreds of individuals from around the world will gather in San Antonio Oct. 17-18 to focus on the psychological health needs of military service members and veterans. With 2023 marking 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, attendees of the Eighth Annual San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference will specifically look at how far we’ve […]
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The Spine Center at UT Health San Antonio is now open. The comprehensive, multidisciplinary center offers complete spine care for adults and children from a team of neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons and specialists in non-operative care for all spine issues. It is located on the fourth floor of the Medical Arts and Research Center and houses the region’s only EOSedge, an imaging system providing a full body scan in 20 seconds, with much less radiation exposure […]
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) announces the successful launch of Pluvicto, a radiopharmaceutical used to treat patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March of 2022, Pluvicto is a novel targeted molecular therapy that delivers radiation treatment […]
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