<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 […]</p>
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<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 […]</p>
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<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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<p>The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry has been awarded a $2 million federal grant to support a large special-care dental clinic that will serve the community and provide training for students.</p>
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<p>Lowry Mays, who died Monday (Sept. 12, 2022), and his late wife, Peggy, were longtime supporters of the Mays Cancer Center, which is San Antonio’s only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center and one of four in Texas.</p>
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<p>Without you, our State Employee Charitable Campaigns would not be successful and our community would go without many of the resources it needs.</p>
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<p>Written by Michele Mora-Trevino With the start of the football season, UT Health San Antonio continues its exclusive official health care partnership with UTSA Athletics NCAA division 1 sports including football, basketball, baseball, volleyball and soccer programs. The partnership allows for the unique privilege of serving the health care needs of the more than 300 […]</p>
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<p>The 7th annual San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference, presented by the STRONG STAR Consortium and UT Health San Antonio, will resume an in-person format Oct. 26-27, 2022, at the Briscoe Western Art Museum along the San Antonio River Walk. Focal areas include resiliency enhancement, suicide prevention, research outcomes with next-generation PTSD treatments, advancing treatment of co-occurring conditions and implementation of evidence-based treatments in clinical settings.</p>
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<p>Loading her car full of medical supplies, flyers and Narcan, School of Nursing student Brieanna Flowers-Joseph, MSN, APRN, CPNP, works with the Street Medicine and Nursing teams to meet individuals where they are: under bridges, at pop-up tents along Zarzamora Street or in homeless encampments in downtown San Antonio.</p>
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<p>UT Health San Antonio has jumped to 12th on Forbes magazine’s list of Best-In-State Employers 2022, from 34th last year. UT Health San Antonio made the ranking of 101 employers from all industries, and with major operations in Texas, and is in the top five in the “Healthcare & Social” industry sector.</p>
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