Taking healing to new heights with three sky-high rescues

October 7, 2026

  At a young age, Tony Hsu knew he wanted to become a nurse but didn’t anticipate how his highly specialized position would prepare him for three midair rescues. At 12 years old, he was diagnosed with anti-HMGCR immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, a rare autoimmune muscle disease in which the immune system attacks the muscles, causing […]

Tony Hsu, left, supervisor of apheresis and cellular therapy services at UT Health San Antonio’s Mays Cancer Center and UT San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital, stands next to multiple myeloma patient Joseph Hall during the apheresis process in which blood -forming stem cells are collected, while the remaining blood is returned to the patient. Later, after the patient completes chemotherapy, the stored cells are infused back into the bloodstream. The cells travel to the bone marrow and begin producing new blood cells, helping blood counts recover over time

Pediatric bone cancer research offers new therapeutic opportunities for osteosarcoma

September 8, 2026

By Panneerdoss Subbarayalu, PhD This article was first published in the September 2026 issue of the Bexar County Medical Society’s San Antonio Medicine magazine. Osteosarcoma is an aggressive cancer that grows quickly, spreads early to the lungs, and has a remarkable ability to resist treatment. It is the most common primary bone cancer in children […]