Healthcare Design: $430M Multispecialty and Research Hospital breaks ground in Texas
April 9, 2021
This Healthcare Design story is about construction beginning on the new UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital. Read the story.
KSAT 12: ‘I’m going to give it 110%’: San Antonio man suffering from long-term COVID-19 symptoms after 68-day hospital stay working toward recovery
April 9, 2021
Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, chair of Rehabilitation Medicine, explained the symptoms COVID-19 long-haulers are dealing with months after contracting the virus in this KSAT 12 story. Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez said that fatigue is one of the major issues, having shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, joint aches and pains and some patients still have not recovered their sense […]
KSAT 12: Many debilitated COVID-19 long-haulers were never originally hospitalized, San Antonio doctor says
April 9, 2021
Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, is quoted in this KSAT 12 story, and our COVID long-hauler clinic’s work is featured. Most of Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez’s long-hauler patients did not have severe symptoms to start, some didn’t even know they had COVID-19 and 75% of these patients were never hospitalized. Watch the story.
KSAT 12: Q&A: April 8, Dr. Ruth Berggren
April 9, 2021
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, answers questions in this KSAT 12 Q&A segment on the COVID vaccine; the more the virus variants can spread in the community, the more it has the opportunity to become resistant to our vaccines. Watch the Q&A.
AAMC News: Research recovery: Medicine’s newest scientists restart careers stalled by COVID-19
April 9, 2021
Dr. Briana Mason, postdoctoral fellow in Pharmacology, and Dr. Babatunde Oyajobi, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, are quoted in this AAMC News article about postdocs returning to their research labs after shutdowns due to COVID-19 and how they are now restarting their work. Read the story.
KTSM-TV: El Paso man to donate kidney to El Paso woman he’d never met
April 8, 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Thomas, Transplant Surgery, is mentioned in this KTSM-TV story as the surgeon who will perform this living donor transplant. Watch the story.