Cancer Letter: NCI Director’s Report: Bertagnolli sets out eight “core principles” for NCI: “We’ve got to be nimbler, faster”
November 14, 2022
Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, executive director of the Mays Cancer Center, is quoted in this report. Read More

Beam-Signing Ceremony Set for Newest Outpatient and Surgery Center to Serve Growing Northwest Bexar County
November 14, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu Monica Taylor, 210-450-8970, taylorm1@uthscsa.edu MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: Leaders from UT Health Physicians, the clinical practice of UT Health San Antonio, contractors …
KENS 5: 33% of San Antonians have prediabetes, doctors urge lifestyle changes and getting check ups
November 11, 2022
Maria Escobar-Vasco, MD, Endocrinology, and Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD, Diabetes, were quoted in this report. Read More
KSAT 12: Pulmonologist talks risks, myths associated with lung cancer
November 11, 2022
Philip Ong, MD, Medicine, was interviewed for this live segment. Watch Interview
KENS 5: What you need to know about the risks and symptoms of lung cancer
November 11, 2022
Josephine Taverna, MD, Hematology/Oncology, Mays Cancer Center, was interviewed for this story. Read More

A third of San Antonians have prediabetes; doctors urge testing
November 10, 2022
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 …
Fox 29: November shines light on Lung Cancer
November 10, 2022
Robert Maximos, MD, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, was interviewed for this live segment. Watch Interview
mHealthIntelligence: Cancer Center to Use mHealth App to Support Timely Access to Care
November 10, 2022
Daruka Mahadevan, MD, PhD, Hematology and Medical Oncology/Mays Cancer Center, is featured in this article. Read More
VA Office of Research & Development: VA Researchers Who Served: Dr. Donald McGeary
November 10, 2022
Donald McGeary, PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and a member of the STRONG STAR consortium, is profiled in this story. Read More

33% of San Antonians have prediabetes, so get checked
November 10, 2022
Flu shots are critically important for those with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Nov. 10, 2022) — Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a consequence of multiple medical problems occurring simu …
