Newsroom
July 10, 2020
Dr. Ruben Mesa, Mays Cancer Center director, and Dr. Ramon Cancino, Primary Care Center director, weigh in on how the pandemic will affect the future of education and health care. Read the story.
July 9, 2020
Chronic inflammation in the body, caused by genetics, disease, or lifestyle is very damaging to cells, playing a role in vascular disease and dementia. Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology at UT Health San Antonio explained to Ivanhoe, “We are increasingly recognizing that infection and inflammation play a role in neurodegeneration and vascular diseases.” Read […]
July 9, 2020
Dr. Mandie Svatek, Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, discusses smoking and second-hand smoke’s contribution to the spread of COVID-19. Read and watch the full story.
July 8, 2020
For some of the most medically vulnerable residents, precautions will always remain in place, even after a COVID-19 vaccine is developed.
July 8, 2020
Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, discussed the development of a coronavirus vaccine. “We are waiting on more study data where they study more people who are receiving the vaccine or the placebo basically, to test out how effective and safe the vaccine is, and that will still take a few more months,” he said. Read […]
July 7, 2020
What if, by inputting information about dementia and a patient into a supercomputer and crunching the data, a treatment team could quantify the individual’s risk of developing the disease? And what if, based on the results, the team could diagnose which type and subtype of dementia that the patient might develop? And what if the […]
