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February 1, 2021
Dr. Francisco Cigarroa’s opinion piece, celebrating 5,000 life-saving transplants at our University Transplant Center, was published in the Laredo Morning Times; while 2020 was a tragic year in which COVID-19 claimed the lives of so many, University Transplant Center pushed forward as generous organ donors made it possible to save lives through transplant surgery. Read […]
February 1, 2021
By Dr. Francisco G. Cigarroa, submitted to the San Antonio Express-News as an opinion piece and published on Jan. 29, 2021. While 2020 was a difficult year in which COVID-19 claimed the lives of so many, University Transplant Center pushed forward, as generous organ donors allowed us to save lives through the miracle of transplant […]
January 28, 2021
More than 80 UT Health San Antonio doctors have been named Texas Super Doctors by Texas Monthly magazine for their high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
July 8, 2020
First we flattened the curve. Now we’ve had a prolonged spike in infections. For some of the most medically vulnerable residents of San Antonio, precautions will always remain in place, even after a COVID-19 vaccine is developed. Diabetes impacts one in every seven people in San Antonio (14%) compared to one in every nine in […]
June 12, 2020
UT Health San Antonio researchers confirmed the role of a certain protein in the development of high-grade kidney cancer. Their findings were recently published in the journal, Translational Research. Dr. Dharam Kaushik, Department of Urology, is the lead and corresponding author, Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, Department of Urology, is senior author. A total of 14 faculty […]
June 5, 2020
A team of researchers confirmed the role of a certain protein in the development of high-grade kidney cancer. The researchers showed that a higher level of the protein can be used as a marker to predict which tumors will develop treatment resistance and progress more rapidly. Dharam Kaushik, MD, associate professor of urology, led the […]