KSAT 12: Fighting Fentanyl: Emergency medicine physician explains how fentanyl harms the body
March 9, 2023
Shawn Varney, MD, Emergency Medicine, was interviewed for this news segment. Watch Now
UT Health San Antonio Professor France leads novel drug discovery research
March 7, 2023
Charles P. France, PhD, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry, professor of pharmacology and professor of psychiatry in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), recently received a $4.12 million award from the U.S. […]
Be Well Texas provides a Lyft to patients with substance use disorders
February 2, 2023
A patient with a substance use disorder in a rural town outside Houston recently needed lab work done before she could be prescribed medication for her treatment. But she didn’t have a ride to the lab. Not a problem, as it turned out. Be Well Texas, a program of UT Health San Antonio that treats […]
KSAT 12: New local study on jaw pain may help replace opioids with safer pain medication
January 25, 2023
Armen Akopian, PhD, Endodontics, was interviewed for this news segment. Read More
UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry awarded $9.8 million NIH grant that could help curb opioid use
January 23, 2023
Study of jaw-joint sensory neurons aimed at creating safer pain treatment The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry has received a major five-year, $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to discover how sensory neurons in the jaw joint and mastication muscles influence and create pain, which could lead to safer drug […]
UT Health San Antonio awarded $1.8 million NIH grant for research in addiction recovery support services
December 13, 2022
With the U.S. grappling with an unprecedented opioid-related overdose crisis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research peer recovery support services for people living with opioid use disorder. While medication for opioid use […]