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September 5, 2017
Thanks to a California clinician-scientist’s recruitment, UT Health San Antonio is now at the center of a major National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to improve scientific knowledge of kidney disease and revolutionize treatments. The project is bringing several million dollars of research to UT Health over the next five years. Kumar Sharma, M.D., assumed […]
May 26, 2016
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) was recognized for its initiative to screen, evaluate and cure chronic hepatitis C. Watch the full story at News 4
March 27, 2015
High potassium increases risk of fatal cardiac arrhythmias; dialysis was one of only treatment options previously
February 10, 2015
In a lecture titled “Science: A Tool for Justice,” Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., MACP will discuss how “common, chronic, costly and consequential diseases” – including type 2 diabetes – disproportionately affect minority populations.
November 19, 2013
Adding stents to therapy did not reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure
January 14, 2011
The kidney is made up of roughly 1 million working units called nephrons.