Fellowship aims to expand forensic psychiatry training in Texas

August 17, 2026

The Long School of Medicine’s Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship program is part of a Texas effort to expand forensic psychiatry training through state funding. UT San Antonio was among nine programs approved statewide to provide this specialty training.





Second edition of cardiovascular encyclopedia reflects rapid advances in heart medicine

July 16, 2026

As cardiovascular science advances at a rapid pace, the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine has arrived as a timely and essential guide to a field being reshaped by discovery, technology and increasingly interdisciplinary approaches, said Co-Editor-in-Chief Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC, FAHA, dean of the Kate Marmion School of Public Health at The University of Texas at San Antonio.





Researchers create new device to save lives on battlefields

July 7, 2026

University researchers have collaborated to develop three devices that would offer combat medics a suction solution for any setting, from controlled to chaotic. Suction devices remove blood and vomit that can block a wounded patient’s airway and prevent breathing.