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March 19, 2019
National Doctors’ Day is March 30, but UT Health San Antonio will be celebrating doctors the entire week of March 25. Sir William Osler, one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital once said, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” And so it is […]
March 18, 2019
Basil A. Pruitt Jr., M.D., FACS, a renowned surgeon known as one of the founding fathers of modern trauma and burn medicine, died March 17. He was 88.
March 12, 2019
This program provides training to first responders on the use of Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that reverses opioid overdose.
March 12, 2019
National Poison Prevention Week is March 17-23. The goal of the week is to raise awareness of the risk of being poisoned by household products, medicines, pesticides, plants, bites and stings, food poisoning, and fumes. For 24 years, the South Texas Poison Center at UT Health San Antonio has taken calls from frantic parents and […]
March 12, 2019
UT Health San Antonio’s School of Nursing has received $17.5 million in federal funding to combat the opioid epidemic in Bexar County and across Texas. Read the story (Note: A subscription and password may be required to view the story)
March 8, 2019
More than 200 faculty, community leaders and philanthropists joined alumni, former teachers and honored guests at the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing’s 50th anniversary luncheon March 2. The event was held in the Nancy Smith Hurd Auditorium, part of the newly remodeled School of Nursing. Following a welcome by School of Nursing Dean […]
