School of Nursing professor’s SUD research gives hope to women and their families

September 9, 2022

Lisa M. Cleveland, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, IBCLC, FAAN, professor in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, whose career began in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), had dreamed of becoming a nurse for […]



New initiative seeks to turn tide on opioid use disorder

November 7, 2019

Most of us know someone who has been touched by substance use disorder, if not in our practices, in our families, friends and communities. Research has shown that substance use disorders are a leading cause of disease and death in the United States and directly cause cancer, overdose death, psychiatric disorders and suicide. In fact, […]

Opioid crisis in the United States


Whole blood is a trauma game changer

September 27, 2019

Many of us went through medical school learning that blood components were the best way to give transfusions. This approach also helped stretch donated blood, which always seems to be in short supply. Given this has been the standard approach to transfusions since the 1970s, it is not unexpected that many of us probably would […]

Close up Bag of blood on blur background.


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.