NowCast SA: The Edge: Preventing the Zika virus
February 1, 2016
This week’s edge features an update on the Zika virus. Watch the video on NowCast SA
KENS-TV: First sexually transmitted Zika virus case in Dallas County
February 1, 2016
The first sexually transmitted case of the Zika virus is confirmed in Dallas County. Dallas County Health and Human Services said it received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It said the patient was infected after having sexual contact with a person who returned from Venezuela. DCHHS said it will not provide […]
CTRC, other NCI Cancer Centers, issue call for HPV vaccination in children
January 27, 2016
Directors of the nation’s 69 National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Centers, including the Cancer Therapy & Research Institute of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, have called for all children and young adults to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV).
UT Health Science Center researcher plays major role in FDA approval of drug for aggressive fungal infections
March 13, 2015
Patients with life-threating fungal infections have new hope for survival and less-severe side effects with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new drug, isavuconazonium sulfate, also called CRESEMBA®.
Patterson appointed to CDC infection control committee
January 12, 2015
Jan E. Patterson, M.D., M.S., of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been appointed to serve on the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Co-author of New England Journal of Medicine article, Dr. Thomas Patterson, available to speak on fungal meningitis outbreak
October 25, 2012
Thomas Patterson, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of infectious diseases in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, is available for interviews about the fungal meningitis outbreak.