Researchers need baby teeth for autism study

April 15, 2016

A research team from the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio is asking families to donate their children’s baby teeth to the Autism Tooth Fairy Study.

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Students hear from HSC doctors on Doctors’ Day

March 31, 2016

In one of the grandest show-and-tell operations of the year, more than 3,600 students in Bexar County had the opportunity to hear from medical doctors who visited their schools March 30.

Cervando Martinez, M.D., professor of psychiatry



TPR: The Source: Colon cancer mortality rates down

March 24, 2016

For a long time, a diagnosis of colon cancer was a near death sentence. In the past 15 years both the mortality rate as well as the incidence of colon cancer has dropped significantly.

Colon X-Ray


CTRC Clinical Trials: Brain Tumors

March 21, 2016

On March 9, Texas Public Radio and the Health Science Center’s Cancer Therapy & Research Center presented Clinical Trials at the CTRC as part of TPR’s Think Health Science series. The speaker was Andrew Brenner, M.D., Ph.D.

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