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July 12, 2005
Ian M. Thompson Jr., M.D., professor and chair of urology at the Health Science Center, is looking for a better test – or set of tests – to diagnose prostate cancer and to distinguish between cancers that will kill men if left untreated and those that will not threaten health and do not need treatment.
July 12, 2005
Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., president of the Health Science Center, was one of the speakers July 11 as San Antonio hosted a public hearing of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC).
July 5, 2005
Health care professionals are invited to register for the fourth annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, “Infusing Quality into Practice,” which will be presented July 7-9 at the Crowne Plaza Riverwalk Hotel, 111 Pecan St. in downtown San Antonio.
July 5, 2005
The South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) Program, part of the Health Science Center, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are teaming up to offer South Texas’ first Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS)/CDC U.S.-Mexico Border Internship Program.
June 28, 2005
Three Health Science Center researchers, their laboratory teams and a University of Maryland collaborator are hard at work sniffing out the clues of the effects of the drug GHB.
June 21, 2005
Young blood platelets appear to be “first responders” to injuries in blood vessel walls, plugging the site of bleeding, while older platelets glom on as a blood clot begins to develop, according to new research out of the Health Science Center.