San Antonio Express-News: COVID-19 pandemic may silence San Antonio church, children’s and performing choirs for months

June 5, 2020

Dr. Jan Patterson, professor of medicine and infectious diseases, explains the dangers of groups singing closely together. “We know that the coronavirus is highly contagious and infects the upper respiratory tract,” said Dr. Patterson, professor. “When you’re in close, continual contact with someone who has the disease, there’s a high risk of transmission.” Singing is […]

Scheduled power outage impacts AAB and ALTC

June 4, 2020

Facilities Management has a scheduled AAB and ALTC building power outage to begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 13. Power will be restored by 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 14.

Healio: Q&A: DUR-928 ‘well tolerated’ for NASH in Phase 1b study

June 4, 2020

Dr. Eric Lawitz, clinical professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, is featured in this Q&A about a new drug being evaluated for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Dr. Lawitz led the phase 2 study with promising results. Read the full story.

Patch.com: San Antonio Metro Health launches asymptomatic coronavirus study

June 3, 2020

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District has partnered with UT Health San Antonio and the San Antonio Fire Department’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare Program (MIH) to conduct a study to assess the community prevalence of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections. This study will be led by Dr. Anita Kurian, Metro Health’s assistant director and head of Communicable Diseases and […]

News 4: Don’t let COVID-19 keep you from being checked out for a stroke

June 3, 2020

Dr. Lee Birnbaum, Department of Neurology in the Long School of Medicine, says over the past few months, stroke centers in Bexar County have seen about a 50% drop in patient evaluations for stroke. “Our general feeling is probably patients aren’t coming into the hospital or calling 9-1-1 when they should because there’s just fear,” […]

KSAT 12: People with cancer and COVID-19 twice as likely to die, new study says

June 3, 2020

Dr. Ruben Mesa, director of the Mays Cancer Center, was interviewed about the new study in The Lancet featuring data from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Mesa said the results from the nearly 1,000 patients showed the death rate of cancer patients who contract COVID-19 is about 13%, twice the rate of the general population. […]