KENS 5: UT Health San Antonio wins grant to study schizophrenia
July 10, 2019
Dr. Jennifer Donegan is working with rats to find better medications to treat the disease – eventually in humans. View the story
Express-News: San Antonio researchers check synthetic version of capsaicin — the heat in chile peppers — for cancer-killing effects
June 10, 2019
Researchers at UT Health San Antonio, in collaboration with the University of Texas at San Antonio, have developed a new class of drugs called capsazepine analogs, which bear structural similarities to capsaicin. In preclinical testing on mice, the drugs have shown promise in dramatically reducing the size of tumors. See the Express-News coverage of this […]
KSAT 12: Local scientists help discover new genes to identify risk for Alzheimer’s
June 4, 2019
The largest Alzheimer’s study in the world involved scientists at UT Health San Antonio. Watch the full story at KSAT 12
KSAT 12: Everything you need to know about infertility and IVF
May 24, 2019
Over the past couple of years Dr. Jennifer Knudtson, UT Health San Antonio reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, has started to notice a change in how couples are dealing with infertility.
Rivard Report: At a home of recovery, women celebrate Mother’s Day and sobriety with their children
May 10, 2019
Sitting at a picnic table covered in a pink plastic tablecloth, Crystal Gutierrez watches as her 5-year-old daughter Makayla drinks fruit punch and sorts black and red discs to play Connect 4. Gutierrez, a 28-year-old mother of three, lives at Casa Mia, a Midtown home for mothers and pregnant women recovering from heroin addiction. She has been sober […]
Texas Public Radio: How can health care providers be more culturally competent, inclusive?
April 22, 2019
Disparities in healthcare are often driven by a doctor’s lack of sensitivity to a patient’s culture, values, socioeconomic status, race, or sexual or gender identity. Read the full story at Texas Public Radio