Dr. Cigarroa to head state panel on kidney disease
December 20, 2019
Task force to implement state plan to prevent, diagnose and manage chronic kidney disease.
Dialysis team rises to top Medicare ranking
August 1, 2018
The 5 star rating is only given to the top 10 percent of dialysis units.
Kidney expert Sharma receives $1.4 million STARS award
November 3, 2017
Kumar Sharma, M.D., professor and chief of nephrology at UT Health San Antonio, was recently awarded a $1.4 million Translational STARs award from the UT System
Noted kidney disease expert joins UT Health, brings major NIH Precision Medicine program
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 […]
News 4: Local hospital recognized for hepatitis C control efforts
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
Oral drug normalizes potassium in 98 percent of kidney patients with side effect
March 27, 2015
High potassium increases risk of fatal cardiac arrhythmias; dialysis was one of only treatment options previously