Patient navigation helps Latinos overcome barriers to health
May 24, 2011
Manual authored by health disparities researchers shows clinics and other providers how to add patient navigators, or “promotoras”
May 24, 2011
Manual authored by health disparities researchers shows clinics and other providers how to add patient navigators, or “promotoras”
April 21, 2011
A small band of nursing students who helped 1,500 underinsured South Texans learn their cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure levels — and risk of diabetes, heart attack and stroke — received the Student Government Association 2011 Community Service Award at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio.
March 30, 2011
A mentorship program opening in June at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio encourages Latinos to pursue careers studying how disease – especially cancer – affects minorities differently.
January 19, 2011
SALSI-funded speaker series focuses on cancer health disparities
October 15, 2010
The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT San Antonio are teaming up to launch the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) Distinguished Health Disparities Lecture Series, which will periodically bring some of the top U.S. health disparities experts to San Antonio to offer the latest trends, tools and advancements in the fight against cancer health disparities among the underserved.
December 15, 2009
A new program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio seeks to bring more Hispanic children from the Lower Rio Grande Valley into clinical trials for leukemia, helping this underserved population get cutting-edge therapies.