Barshop seeking participants in molecular study of exercise

October 14, 2019

Scientists, physicians, and clinical exercise specialists from across the country—including UT Health San Antonio— are embarking on a landmark National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort to find out what happens at the molecular level when people exercise. The goal of the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium, known as MoTrPAC, is to create a comprehensive […]




Youth-onset Type 2 diabetes is derailing the lives of young adults

September 27, 2019

Jane Lynch, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist at UT Health San Antonio, is truly on the front lines of San Antonio’s alarming increase of Type 2 diabetes in children. Since 2005, more than 1,000 youth under the age of 18 have been diagnosed with the disease in her clinic at the Texas Diabetes Institute on South […]

Photo of a child measuring her sugar level in a doctor's office.


Women in Medicine Month, Part IV

September 25, 2019

Read the newsletter September is Women in Medicine Month. Read about the achievements and talents of some of UT Health San Antonio’s women faculty in the fourth in a series of newsletters.  



Driving to end childhood cancer

September 23, 2019

Hyundai Hope on Wheels® presented two grants totaling $500,000 to UT Health San Antonio for pediatric cancer research.
Video: Highlight reel




Women in Medicine Month, Part III

September 18, 2019

September is Women in Medicine Month. Read about the achievements and talents of some of UT Health San Antonio’s women faculty in the third in a series of newsletters. Read the newsletter