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September 9, 2021
Dr. Grace Lee, Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, and Dr. Marcos Restrepo, Pulmonary Diseases, were interviewed about their study of immunologic resilience measured in 522 patients with COVID-19 at Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital in San Antonio, a hospital of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Watch story
April 19, 2021
Dr. Vincent Mysliwiec and Dr. Alan Peterson, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are quoted in this Military.com article about their study that shows insomnia diagnoses increased 45-fold, and obstructive sleep apnea rose 30-fold, among U.S. service members from 2005 to 2019. Read the story.
April 19, 2021
Dr. Vincent Mysliwiec and Dr. Alan Peterson, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are quoted in this article about their study that shows active-duty U.S. military members may be at a markedly increased risk of developing insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea. Read the story.
April 12, 2021
Dr. Alan Peterson, STRONG STAR/ Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP)/Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is quoted in this San Antonio Express-News story about military suicides in the COVID era hitting a new high. Read the story.
April 5, 2021
Dr. Vincent Mysliwiec and Dr. Alan Peterson, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are quoted in this report about new research that suggests the effect of serving in the U.S. military can be stressful and that is showing up in a dramatic increase in two types of sleep problems like insomnia and sleep apnea. Read the story.
March 31, 2021
Severely injured trauma patients who received a blood-clotting drug before arriving at the hospital had a better chance of surviving than those who didn’t, according to new research published in Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery.