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Health leaders welcome FDA action on e-cigarettes
May 6, 2016
Action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) May 5 to regulate e-cigarettes and vaping in the same way as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is “a welcome step toward reducing the nation’s cancer burden,” said Ian M. Thompson Jr., M.D., director of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the Health Science Center. […]
Celebrate nursing: A message from President Henrich
May 6, 2016
This week we celebrate National Nurses Week as well as the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.
SA Tomorrow formulating goals
May 5, 2016
SA Tomorrow is an innovative, three-pronged planning effort, led by the Department of Planning and Community Development, to guide the city toward strategic, sustainable growth. It builds on SA2020 vision begun for former Mayor Julian Castro that was released in 2011 and included goals for improving San Antonio by the year 2020.
Military Health Institute faculty to present at Invictus symposium
May 4, 2016
Roxana E. Delgado, Ph.D., a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics funded by the Military Health Institute, will be among the presenters at the Invictus Games Symposium.
Burial of ashes honors willed body donors
April 28, 2016
As the distinctive sounds of bagpipes playing Amazing Grace wafted over the grounds on a brilliant spring day, a lone AirLife helicopter flew overhead, offering a final salute to the those who in death served the living.
HSC does Fiesta!
April 20, 2016
For the first time in many years, the Health Science Center sponsored a float during the Texas Cavaliers River Parade, held annually during San Antonio’s citywide Fiesta.