New dental tool helps detect tooth decay in its earliest stages
June 20, 2006
A toothbrush and a string of mint-flavored dental floss are essential to 6-year-old Natalie Hoffmann’s bedtime routine.
Use of Titanium Rib increases, resulting in more lives saved
May 23, 2006
The Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib, an invention developed and validated over the past 19 years at the Health Science Center and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital, is having a major impact on the way surgeons treat children whose lung growth is threatened by chest wall abnormalities, its inventor says.
Congenital heart program collaboration is saving the tiniest of lives
May 16, 2006
Colman Collins turned 2 on March 30, a momentous birthday for any toddler but especially so for Colman.
New center dedicated to treating children’s sleep disorders is first of its kind in San Antonio
April 26, 2006
Pediatric sleep experts report that 25 percent of children in the United States experience some type of sleep disorder. Problems can include sleepwalking, insomnia, narcolepsy, snoring, sleep apnea and others.
Chromosome 18 center celebrates 10 years, 233 families, 21 papers
September 6, 2005
The Chromosome 18 Clinical Research Center at the Health Science Center began as a study of children who have deletions of a portion of Chromosome 18 (18q-).
HSC researchers are first to map destructive gene
March 8, 2005
Dental researchers at Health Science Center are the first in the world to successfully map the gene that causes dentinogenesis imperfecta (DGI) Type III, a disease that affects tooth density and color and over time can cause teeth to wear to the gum line.