KSAT 12: Smoking suspected of accelerating COVID-19 spread
July 9, 2020
Dr. Mandie Svatek, Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, discusses smoking and second-hand smoke’s contribution to the spread of COVID-19. Read and watch the full story.
KENS 5: The race to develop a coronavirus vaccine
July 8, 2020
Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, discussed the development of a coronavirus vaccine. “We are waiting on more study data where they study more people who are receiving the vaccine or the placebo basically, to test out how effective and safe the vaccine is, and that will still take a few more months,” he said. Read […]
KENS 5: Mission SA: Military doctor shares first deployment experience treating coronavirus patients in New York
July 7, 2020
A local military doctor’s first deployment was the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. As San Antonio faces a surge in cases, Scott Farber, MD, assistant professor/clinical in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, shares insight from his experience treating patients in New York. Read and watch the full story.
Phys.org: Study shows great specificity of action by enzymes to correct double-strand DNA breaks
July 7, 2020
James Daley, PhD, of the Long School of Medicine, is first author of research, published June 18 in the journal Nature Communications, that sheds light on a double-strand break repair process called homologous recombination. Joined by senior authors Patrick Sung, DPhil, and Sandeep Burma, PhD, and other collaborators, Dr. Daley found that among an array of […]
KSAT 12: Infectious disease expert: Weather and COVID-19
July 6, 2020
Ruth Berggren, MD, and meteorologist Sarah Spivey discuss how the weather affects the spread of COVID-19.
Consumer Reports: How to stay safe as fireworks besiege neighborhoods in some cities
July 6, 2020
For people with PTSD, fireworks can cause serious anxiety, especially if they’re unexpected. Veterans, for example, may have a strong reaction “to fireworks, because it reminds them of explosions that have occurred in the battlefield,” said Alan Peterson, PhD, professor and chief of the division of behavioral medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.