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April 10, 2019
David Cadena, M.D., family physician at UT Health Verde Hills, shares four tips to help you quit smoking in 2019. Tip one: be gentle. You may be thinking, ‘I’ve tried that and slipped up. Quitting is impossible.’ Dr. Cadena wants you to not be so hard on yourself. His first and most important tip is, […]
April 10, 2019
For high school students in San Antonio, an area with one of the highest levels of adult and childhood poverty, health care can be viewed as a luxury. Many of these students have single parents who would need to sacrifice a day’s work to take their child to the doctor. Some are homeless and unsure […]
March 27, 2019
“Suicide is a public health issue that affects people from every race, every age, every gender and every class,” explains Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health in San Antonio. “But Latina teens have suicidal ideations and want to kill themselves more frequently.” Read the story
March 27, 2019
March 19, 2019
The Memory Café provides a social opportunity for those with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. The program is offered by the School of Nursing through its Caring for the Caregiver program in conjunction with a San Antonio community center. Read the story
February 8, 2019
The Department of Urology is hosting a Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer Symposium for the general public that will feature leading physicians and experts on prostate cancer. The free event will be from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 2, in the Holly Auditorium on the Long campus. Prostate cancer survivors, patients, friends, family […]