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April 16, 2021
Dr. Robert Svatek, chairman of urology and bladder cancer specialist with the Mays Cancer Center, gives great insights about advances in immunotherapy and the future of cancer care in this Lone Star Health News article. The story mentions that Dr. Svatek was an investigator in a clinical trial that combined immunotherapy with gene therapy to […]
April 16, 2021
Dr. Jan Patterson, Infectious Diseases, was quoted in this article from a prior News 4 story regarding people coming down with COVID after getting the vaccine. Dr. Patterson underscores that this is not because these people got the vaccine; rather, it’s because they were exposed to COVID when they were not fully immune. Read the […]
April 16, 2021
Dr. Owais Durrani, Emergency Medicine resident, speaks to Yahoo! Finance about the upsides of Americans being overly cautious of the COVID-19 vaccine as it gives clinicians time to figure out if the complications are due to the vaccine. He said the pause may even result in people having more confidence in the post-vaccine surveillance. Read […]
April 15, 2021
UT Health San Antonio currently has open appointments for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. You must be 16 years and older to receive the vaccine and will need to return in 21 days to receive your second dose. Schedule your vaccine online: http://schedule.utmedicinesa.com/
April 14, 2021
Dr. Rachel Pearson, Pediatrics, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, is quoted in this feature on the challenges of unravelling long COVID. She believes that, in scientific inquiry, there’s much less harm to casting a broad net of inquiry in order to see what we find in the arena of long-haul COVID. Read the story.
April 14, 2021
In this KSAT 12 Q&A, Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, spoke from a senior center where vaccinations were being administered, by the School of Nursing’s mobile vaccine administration unit, in order to answer viewers’ latest questions regarding how the vaccine is holding up to the variants. Watch the Q&A.