Public Now.com: CTRC celebrates cancer survivorship with 5K run/walk May 14

April 25, 2016

In a celebration of cancer survivorship, people from throughout San Antonio who are receiving cancer treatment or who have overcome cancer can run or walk for free in the Cancer Therapy & Research Center ‘s ‘Give Cancer the Boot!’ 5K Run/Walk. Read the full story at Public Now.com


MedPage Today: SCAI: Women Less Likely to Die After TAVR

April 25, 2016

Women had fewer deaths after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) than men, despite near-doubled risk for in-hospital vascular complications, a late-breaking study here suggested. Read the full story at MedPage Today




Parkinson’s News Today: Neuronal changes seen in Parkinson’s mouse model before disease symptoms

April 20, 2016

University of Texas Health Science Center researchers have identified physiologic changes in dopamine neurons in a key animal model of Parkinson’s known to display disease symptoms, the MitoPark mouse model. The dopamine changes in the mice, however, clearly came before any symptoms appeared — findings that may lead to earlier identification of  Parkinson’s in people, […]