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UT Dentistry receives grant to help veterans with blood cancers receive dental care

Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu Content contributed by Kristen Zapata SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 23, 2023 – 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 […]

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Dr. Ronald Stewart receives Distinguished Service Award from American College of Surgeons

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 […]

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UT Health San Antonio honored for digital excellence by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives

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 […]

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UT Health San Antonio wins ‘Best Company Perks & Benefits’ award from Comparably

Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 20, 2023 – 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 […]

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Team eyes gene therapy for children paralyzed by rare mutations

Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 20, 2023) — 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 […]

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Annual Liver Cancer Symposium Returns to San Antonio to Address At-Risk Communities and Major Advances

Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 16, 2023 – Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio will host the third annual San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium on October 20 and 21 at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country. The two-day event will bring together health care professionals from around the world to […]

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Marc D. Feldman, MD, Briscoe Division of Cardiology, co-edits paperback version of classic textbook in interventional cardiology

The most famous textbook in interventional cardiology, Grossman and Baim’s “Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography and Intervention,” now bears the name of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on its inside cover. Marc D. Feldman, MD, emeritus and adjoint professor of medicine in the Janey and Dolph Briscoe Division of Cardiology, worked with […]

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Experts at 2023 San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference to examine 50 years of progress, future directions

Media contact: Will Sansom, sansom@uthscsa.edu, (210) 567-2579 On-site contact: Julie Collins, collinsjr@uthscsa.edu, (210) 218-8746 SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 12, 2023) – 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 […]

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UT Health San Antonio becomes first civilian center in South Texas to launch FDA-approved radiotherapy treatment for advanced prostate cancer

Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 6, 2023 – 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 […]

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New research led by Mays Cancer Center reveals how mutations in BRCA1 affect cancer susceptibility in women

Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 6, 2023 – Three decades after discoveries linking mutations in the BRCA1 gene to breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility, research led by Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has pinpointed the molecular mechanism by […]

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