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
Leader of NIH diabetes institute to speak at UT Health Science Center
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.
Henrich, co-authors find renal-artery stents don’t reduce major events
November 19, 2013
Adding stents to therapy did not reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure
Blood pressure control system found in kidney’s structural units
January 14, 2011
The kidney is made up of roughly 1 million working units called nephrons.
Henrich elected to presidency of American Society of Nephrology
November 22, 2006
William L. Henrich, M.D., M.A.C.P., dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was installed Nov. 19 as president of the 9,500-member American Society of Nephrology.
HSC employee receives kidney from caring co-worker
May 9, 2006
Patti Ruffin, 51, an employee at the Health Science Center, knew that one day she would need a kidney transplant.