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April 26, 2018
SAN ANTONIO (April 26, 2018) ― The UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing has been awarded two grants totaling more than $4 million to educate Bexar County first responders in how to identify and reverse opioid overdose. Lisa Cleveland, Ph.D., RN, assistant professor of nursing, received the grants from the Texas Health & Human […]
April 20, 2018
The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear: Your father has Alzheimer’s disease. Your mother has stroke-related dementia. A recently released study, included in a special supplement to the Journal of Gerontology, indicates that dementia’s impact might be compressing a bit. That is, people might be developing dementia later and living with […]
April 19, 2018
Dr. Jose Cavazos of UT Health San Antonio serves on FDA advisory committee. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on April 19 recommended approval of the first cannabidiol (CBD) medicine for prescription use in two severe pediatric epilepsy syndromes. The vote was 13-0. Jose E. Cavazos, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and physiology […]
April 4, 2018
Novel technology developed at UT Health San Antonio gives rise to mouse pancreatic tumors that have the same traits as human pancreatic cancer. A U.S. patent is pending on the invention. The groundbreaking technology, reported in February in the journal Carcinogenesis (Oxford University Press), could revolutionize studies of pancreatic cancer initiation and progression, and spur […]
April 2, 2018
SAN ANTONIO (April 2, 2018) ― UT Health San Antonio will host the San Antonio Substance Use Symposium on April 20 and 21. The free event will bring together leaders from the city of San Antonio, Bexar County, academic health and local health care systems, community-based organizations, health care providers and the public. “The purpose […]
March 28, 2018
Alteration is in main gene that causes the body to respond to low oxygen An international team led by Dr. Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D., of UT Health San Antonio, discovered a genetic mutation that explains why adults with severe congenital heart defects — who live with low oxygen in their blood — are at dramatically […]