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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.
December 6, 2014
Funding will expand health care for children and families in need
May 19, 2014
Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic group in the United States, and they suffer from major health disparities, including higher rates of cancers of the cervix, stomach and liver. However, their enrollment levels in cancer clinical trials seeking to cure these problems is abysmally low: 3.9 percent.
September 16, 2013
Beatriz Tapia, M.D., a lecturer from the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio who teaches medical students in Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley, will be a panelist on a national webinar Tuesday, Sept. 17, about careers in Hispanic and minority health.
March 8, 2013
Latinas who have an abnormal mammogram result take 33 days longer to reach definitive diagnosis of breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
October 10, 2012
“Moving Toward a Healthy Community: Mending the Gaps in Bexar County” features representatives of for-profit and non-profit health care, academia, government and community.