Health Science Center wins U.S. award for seat belt survey results
March 8, 2005
The Health Science Center has won the National Buckle Up America Award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
National Kidney Foundation to fete Calhoon, Fried, Nichols
March 8, 2005
Three health professionals who have increased public awareness of transplantation and who have encouraged many area families through their tireless and competent work will receive the Kathryn Dial Murray “Gift of Life” Award this week from the National Kidney Foundation of South and Central Texas.
HSC researchers are first to map destructive gene
March 8, 2005
Dental researchers at Health Science Center are the first in the world to successfully map the gene that causes dentinogenesis imperfecta (DGI) Type III, a disease that affects tooth density and color and over time can cause teeth to wear to the gum line.
San Antonio, Reynosa medical schools partner on infectious diseases degree
March 1, 2005
A master’s degree program in infectious diseases – with special emphasis on tuberculosis – will be established in the Reynosa-McAllen border region by this fall, thanks to a $290,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
U.S. Surgeon General Carmona calls obesity ‘the terror within’
March 1, 2005
U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, who visited the Health Science Center for a Feb. 24 symposium on obesity in the Hispanic population, suggested that if the public viewed the current epidemic of obesity with the same seriousness as potential acts of bioterrorism, the United States would take a solid and necessary step toward becoming a healthier nation.
UT Health Science Center opens student-run free clinic at Alpha Home
February 22, 2005
Millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans find their care in hospital emergency rooms, long after the time when preventive steps might have been taken to better their health.