People who preserve ‘immune resilience’ live longer, resist infections

June 13, 2023

Multinational study identifies immune resilience as a factor that influences life span, HIV/AIDS, flu, sepsis mortality, recurrent skin cancer and COVID-19 mortality Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, working with collaborators in five countries, today revealed that the capacity to resist or recover from infections and other sources of […]




UT Health San Antonio, Ohio company reach license agreement to develop chlamydia vaccine

December 13, 2022

Vaccines for this infection have been challenging to produce SAN ANTONIO (Dec. 13, 2022) — The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has granted an exclusive global license allowing an Ohio biopharmaceutical company to develop university research discoveries into a novel oral vaccine for chlamydia. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease […]




UT Health San Antonio physicians offer advice for flu, RSV, COVID-19 triple threat

December 9, 2022

  Unlike triple threats celebrated in sports and the entertainment world, no one is celebrating the possibility of a triple threat of the flu, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV and COVID-19. With the winter holidays fast approaching, UT Health San Antonio physicians are encouraging the community to get vaccinated for both the flu and COVID-19, […]



Infectious disease physician-scientist committed to serving the community’s underserved

June 13, 2022

Ruth Serrano, MD, a physician-scientist and assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, has a passion and drive to help her patients recover from the profound effects of infectious diseases, including HIV and […]


Hepatitis cases of unknown origin seen in South Texas, pediatric GI doctor says

April 28, 2022

Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 28, 2022) — Clinicians in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at UT Health San Antonio have seen cases of a mysterious and serious liver disease in otherwise healthy children, Naveen Mittal, MD, professor and division chief, said today. One young patient is in a San Antonio hospital, […]

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