Express-News: Kids educated on how to control their asthma
July 26, 2016
UT Health Science Center faculty and staff hold an Asthma Boot Camp at the Doseum.
The Doctor Is In: The power of exercise
July 25, 2016
Stacey Young-McCaughan, RN, Ph.D., professor, Division of Behavioral Medicine, studies the benefits of running coupled with prolonged exposure therapy to treat PTSD. Her research has also involved the benefits of exercise for cancer patients.
News 4: San Antonio med student on a mission to help kids fighting cancer
July 20, 2016
Mecklin Ragan is a third year medical student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Becoming a doctor is something the Corpus Christi native knew she wanted to do since the summer of 2006. A summer where her world flipped upside down. Watch the full story at News 4
Science Daily: Microscopic collisions help proteins stay healthy
July 20, 2016
Studies are providing basic new understanding about ‘heat shock proteins,’ also called’chaperone proteins. Researchers presented data that show how heat shock proteins break apart protein complexes. Read the full story at Science Daily
Science Daily: Brain cell death in Alzheimer’s linked to structural flaw
July 14, 2016
Researchers found that the nuclei from brain cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease contained tunnels (arrows) not found in normal brain cells. “We have identified multiple new cellular processes that go awry in Alzheimer’s disease because of pathological tau,” said Bess Frost, Ph.D., assistant professor, Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.
KSAT 12: The Doctor Is In: Changing lives through prosthetics
July 11, 2016
Jesse Rettele started working at a local orthotic and prosthetics facility at the young age of 17. “I always loved working with my hands and tinkering with things,” Rettele said.