Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Dentists aren’t known to tell people not to brush, but that’s what happened on the way to a breakthrough. After asking study participants not to brush half their teeth for three weeks, researchers discovered that genetic differences make some people more susceptible to chronic inflammatory diseases that […]

NIRVANA clinical study seeks the answer in San Antonio, Seattle and New York Media contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 22, 2021) — Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, The University of Washington at Seattle and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have […]

Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu A day after baby CJ’s heart stopped, twice, his parents were presented grim options including a future for him hooked to machines or in end-of-life hospice care. Something kept them going, a feeling that they were better prepared than most for months of continuing treatment and life-and-death decisions. CJ was […]

Small subsets of high-risk patients produce few or no antibodies, however. Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 30, 2021) — In a U.S. and Swiss study, nearly all patients with cancer developed good immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines three to four weeks after receiving their second dose, but the fact […]

Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Could your new home with its fresh paint, carpet and cabinets, as well as pesticides used around the place, cause a range of illness due to chemical intolerance? A new paper provides a long-awaited link between exposures to common chemicals and so-called unexplained illnesses. It also for […]