Fox 29: Frontline healthcare workers begin receiving final dose of COVID vaccine

January 6, 2021

Drs. Jan and Tom Patterson, Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Don Jenkins, Surgery, contributed to this Fox 29/News 4 story on health care workers and essential personnel at UT Health San Antonio receiving their second and final dose of the Pfizer vaccine; KENS 5 and Spectrum News also ran stories of Tuesday’s first administrations of the […]


News 4: Health care thank you

January 6, 2021

The health care workers of UT Health San Antonio are afforded sincere thanks in a video tribute by David Chancellor of News 4 San Antonio, augmented by comments from Drs. Robert Leverence, Tom Patterson and Ralph Riviello, UT Health Physicians/Infectious Diseases/Emergency Medicine, respectively. Watch the video.



The Washington Post: Large-scale global study to investigate links between COVID-19 and cognitive decline

January 6, 2021

Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin and Dr. Sudha Seshadri, Neurology/Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, have done multiple media interviews including one for The Washington Post, regarding an article published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association; the article cites decades of scientific evidence suggesting it is very likely that COVID-19 […]


San Antonio Report: COVID-19 could increase risk of brain ailments such as Alzheimer’s, depression, SA doctors say

January 5, 2021

Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin and Dr. Sudha Seshadri, Neurology/Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, were interviewed regarding an article published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association; the article cites decades of scientific evidence suggesting it is very likely that COVID-19 will have long-term effects on the brains and nervous […]


San Antonio Express-News: In a leopard-print helmet, San Antonio baby competes in pageant, defies stigma

January 4, 2021

Born via emergency cesarean section about two months early, Ily Guckian spent the first months of her life in late 2019 at Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak. At 4 pounds, 8 ounces, her body was too underdeveloped for her to eat and breathe on her own. She spent the majority of the time in an isolette, an enclosed incubator frequently used to protect and facilitate the growth of premature infants.