Practicing emergency medicine far from the emergency room

March 11, 2024

In February 2024, students in the Wilderness and Survival Medicine course at UT Health San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine tested their emergency medicine skills during a four-day trip to Big Bend National Park where they role-played seven potentially life-and-death scenarios to determine how they should respond.




Campus community invited to BRAD 2024 webinar viewing event April 18

March 8, 2024

The campus community is invited to the Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) 2024 webinar viewing event to watch Charles France, PhD, department of pharmacology, professor and Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry, discuss “The Importance of Animals in Addressing the Drug Abuse Crisis.” The UT Health San Antonio-hosted event will take place on […]


Mays Cancer Center provides important webinars in March to raise Colorectal Cancer awareness

March 8, 2024

During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March, the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, is presenting five webinars each Friday to raise awareness about this disease. Two webinars are now available to view: Complex Resections for Colorectal Liver Metastases with Alexander Parikh, MD, chief of the division […]




Construction begins March 16 on Greehey Campus

March 5, 2024

Research Road, the main thoroughfare through the Greehey campus, and portions of lots 16 and 23 to close March 16; some patients and visitors to relocate to other lots As part of UT Health San Antonio’s continued growth and expansion, a construction project will begin March 16 to run chilled water lines from the new […]




First-time parents promote the benefits of cranial remolding

March 4, 2024

  Four months into their daughter’s life, Heather and Callum Riley found themselves at a crossroads. Harper Riley’s head shape was wide and short rather than symmetrical and oval, the likely result of her head being pressed against her mother’s pelvis before she was born. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, this occurs in […]


UT Teen Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services host community dialogue

February 29, 2024

UT Teen Health, an initiative of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has been successfully collaborating with community youth organizations since 2003 to implement evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs in South Texas.   Notably, in July 2023, UT Teen Health received a $9.86 million federal grant from […]