Get a ‘Health Equity Report Card’ on the condition of your community!

October 9, 2019

By Cliff Despres, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UT Health San Antonio Wonder what health equity looks like in your community? Select your county name and get a customized Health Equity Report Card from Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio. This report card will show how your area stacks up in housing, transit, poverty, […]





Read the latest Mission magazine

September 27, 2019

The latest issue of Mission, a magazine of UT Health San Antonio, has stories about a fearless preschooler who fought her way through countless surgeries, about how lessons learned on the battlefields are changing trauma care, the latest research to combat type 2 diabetes in youth, and much more. Read the latest issue.




Whole blood is a trauma game changer

September 27, 2019

Many of us went through medical school learning that blood components were the best way to give transfusions. This approach also helped stretch donated blood, which always seems to be in short supply. Given this has been the standard approach to transfusions since the 1970s, it is not unexpected that many of us probably would […]

Close up Bag of blood on blur background.


Youth-onset Type 2 diabetes is derailing the lives of young adults

September 27, 2019

Jane Lynch, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist at UT Health San Antonio, is truly on the front lines of San Antonio’s alarming increase of Type 2 diabetes in children. Since 2005, more than 1,000 youth under the age of 18 have been diagnosed with the disease in her clinic at the Texas Diabetes Institute on South […]

Photo of a child measuring her sugar level in a doctor's office.