Behind the Shield: The fight is not yet over

October 29, 2020

I am an internal medicine resident at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, New York. I graduated from UT Health San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine in 2018. As part of my training in the internal medicine residency program, I have worked in both the hospital’s emergency room and on the inpatient […]






FDA approves remdesivir for COVID-19 patients

October 23, 2020

SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 23, 2020) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Oct. 22 that the drug remdesivir (Veklury) is the first approved treatment for COVID-19. The antiviral medication has been tested in study sites internationally since February, including a study site led by UT Health San Antonio and its clinical partner, University Health […]





Telephone system upgrade could cause outages Oct. 30 – Nov. 1

October 22, 2020

Information Management Services (IMS) is upgrading the existing phone system October 30 – November 1. During this time you may experience intermittent phone outages that will last 10-15 minutes. This will affect all UT Health San Antonio locations. In preparation for the upgrade, we will not perform any updates to our phone system October 26 […]