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February 22, 2024
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) received $131.5 million in National Institutes of Health funding in federal fiscal year 2023, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The university ranked No. 72 out of the 2,886 public and private institutions that received […]
February 22, 2024
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio was recognized as a Parkinson’s Foundation Comprehensive Care Center at the inaugural UT Health San Antonio Parkinson’s Symposium, held Feb. 24. A team of specialists from UT Health San Antonio’s Movement Disorders Program received the recognition of this designation, the first of its kind in Texas. “We […]
February 16, 2024
On March 2, the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases is hosting a free, educational event open to the community featuring an expert-led panel discussion moderated by Emmy award-winning producer for National Public Radio, Kitty Eisele.
February 14, 2024
Doctors at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are among the nation’s first to implant a newly approved sensing rechargeable deep brain stimulation device with a 15-year battery life allowing more continual treatment of patients with movement disorders. Deep brain stimulation, known as DBS, is the […]
February 7, 2024
The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry has opened a special-care dental clinic, the first of its kind in an academic setting in South Texas that will serve people of all ages with intellectual, developmental, cognitive or physical disabilities.
January 25, 2024
It is a far cry from the traditionally thought-of “vegetative state” in which the mind is absent while the body lives on. Indeed, it is the opposite. Children with “locked-in syndrome,” unable to move or speak, are awake and fully aware of their surroundings.
