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January 14, 2021
Dr. Luz Garcini, UT Health San Antonio’s Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH), is quoted in this Laredo Morning Times story regarding vaccine rollout issues not unique to Laredo, but the city faces extra hurdles to reach herd immunity. Dr. Garcini has been surveying community members and health workers in Laredo and throughout […]
January 14, 2021
Dr. Amelie Ramirez, Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio, and Dr. Luz Garcini, UT Health San Antonio’s Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH), were interviewed for this San Antonio Express-News story about how to reach Latinos and other underserved San Antonio groups who may be reluctant to get the […]
January 14, 2021
Dr. Jennifer Potter, Psychiatry/vice dean for research, was a featured guest during the noon hour Jan. 14 on Texas Public Radio’s “The Source” regarding the fact that, when the U.S. was already experiencing its deadliest drug overdose epidemic pre-pandemic, now, exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, evidence suggests the overdose death toll is on track […]
January 14, 2021
On the Jan. 12 briefing, Mayor Ron Nirenberg mentioned the Mil Gracias (A Thousand Thanks) educational effort championed by UT Health San Antonio faculty and staff including Dr. Amelie Ramirez, Dr. Claudia Miller and Dr. Mandie Svatek.Mil Gracias is a thank you to smokers who go outside to light up or quit altogether, an important […]
January 14, 2021
Registered nurse Cassandra Hernandez commented to KSAT 12 that her care received from the post-COVID-19 recovery clinic of UT Health Physicians changed her life. Watch here.
January 14, 2021
UT Health San Antonio, University Health participate in study that finds adding baricitinib to remdesivir helps patients recover sooner. A clinical trial involving COVID-19 patients hospitalized at UT Health San Antonio and University Health, among roughly 100 sites globally, found that a combination of the drugs baricitinib and remdesivir reduced time to recovery, according to […]
