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Donate to help families this Giving Tuesday

<p>Giving Tuesday is Nov. 29. On this day, for 24 hours, people around the world will participate in a global day of giving.</p>

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UT Regents fund pioneering trauma care research center

<p>The University of Texas System Board of Regents on Nov. 17 approved $2.5 million to establish the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative at UT Health San Antonio in partnership with University Health’s Level 1 Trauma Center at University Hospital and the U.S. Department of Defense. The new trauma care research center will be the first and only one of its kind in the United States, according to UT System.</p>

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10 organizations join Health Confianza’s Health Literacy Pledge Program

<p>Health Confianza, a communitywide effort providing health literacy training and education to the community, professionals and organizations, has welcomed 10 local organizations to its Health Literacy Pledge Program.</p>

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UT Health San Antonio selected for $3 million grant to train community health workers in South Texas

<p>Goal is to increase workforce to serve marginalized populations, rural communities UT Health San Antonio will leverage a three-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to train community health workers (CHWs) with the goal of increasing access to health services and addressing the public [&hellip;]</p>

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Parkway outpatient and surgery center holds beam-signing ceremony

<p>Much-needed primary and specialty health care, as well as surgical services, for a growing Northwest Side drew an important step closer with a beam-signing ceremony for the UT Health at Kyle Seale Parkway outpatient and surgery center, signaling that crews have completed the steel construction phase of the project. Leaders of UT Health Physicians, the [&hellip;]</p>

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A third of San Antonians have prediabetes; doctors urge testing

<p>During Diabetes Awareness Month (November), UT Health San Antonio endocrinologist Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD, reminds the community that one in every three people in San Antonio has prediabetes, which physicians define by a hemoglobin A1C percentage of 5.7% to 6.4%. Hemoglobin A1C is a blood test that measures average glucose levels over the past three months. Carolina [&hellip;]</p>

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School of Nursing provides Narcan to Bexar County Sheriff’s Office

<p>&nbsp; Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar stopped by the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing on Oct. 27 to receive 96 doses of Narcan®, a nasal spray that can rescue individuals who have experienced accidental opioid poisoning. The School of Nursing provides training to first responders on the use of Narcan and has distributed [&hellip;]</p>

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Students learn empathy through hands-on exercise

<p>A first-year medical student had an unusual class assignment. He pretended to be a 13-year-old girl begging a pawn shop owner for a few dollars to help feed hungry siblings. The unorthodox exercise was part of a poverty simulation that more than 200 Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine students participated in [&hellip;]</p>

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UT Health San Antonio Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program celebrates 50 years caring for South Texas

<p>The Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022.  The program, which includes its clinical partner, University Health in San Antonio and its affiliated clinic, the Texas Diabetes Institute, is one of the oldest programs in [&hellip;]</p>

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Diabetes self-care reached by 32% who built trust with community health workers

<p>One-third of 986 patients achieved long-term self-care of their type 2 diabetes after building trusting relationships with community health workers (promotores in Spanish) over 12 weeks, according to a newly published study by faculty of UT Health San Antonio.</p>

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