Research

Putting the clamp on cancer
November 23, 2015
How does a protein called connexin put the clamps on cancer? Researchers in the School of Medicine at the Health Science Center reported an explanation.

Stemming death from bleeding
November 19, 2015
A new research study in Bexar and surrounding counties will examine whether a drug already approved for slowing blood loss in other conditions will reduce the risk of death in adult trauma patients in shock from severe bleeding.

Report: No amount of alcohol safe for pregnant women
November 4, 2015
A new clinical report co-authored by Janet F. Williams, M.D., FAAP, professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine at the Health Science Center, identifies prenatal exposure to alcohol as the leading preventable cause of birth defects and intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities in children.