Deep brain stimulation keeps amateur artist’s hands steady

March 20, 2024

  Sitting in a diner, John Lattimore straightens his arm and hand. Both are steady. Five years ago, that was not the case. Throughout his life, Lattimore has lived with essential tremors. The neurological condition he shares with his siblings includes shaking hands, arms, head, trunk and vocal cords. In 50%–70% of cases, it’s an […]





Dr. Ronald Stewart receives Distinguished Service Award from American College of Surgeons

October 23, 2023

Announcement by American College of Surgeons Edited for UT Health San Antonio Newsroom BOSTON (Oct. 23, 2023) — Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS, trauma surgeon, professor and chairman of surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, received the Distinguished Service Award — the American College of Surgeons’ highest annual honor […]




Watch the topping out of UT Health San Antonio’s newest facility

November 29, 2022

An evergreen tree was lifted to the roof of the new primary, specialty and surgery center recently – signaling the construction of UT Health San Antonio at Kyle Seale Parkway has reached its final height. The topping out of a new building is a Scandinavian tradition dating back more than thirteen centuries. The five-story, 108,000-square-foot […]


Parkway outpatient and surgery center holds beam-signing ceremony

November 16, 2022

Much-needed primary and specialty health care, as well as surgical services, for a growing Northwest Side drew an important step closer with a beam-signing ceremony for the UT Health at Kyle Seale Parkway outpatient and surgery center, signaling that crews have completed the steel construction phase of the project. Leaders of UT Health Physicians, the […]




Robotic kidney cancer surgery shows desirable outcomes in study

August 17, 2022

  Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 17, 2022) — Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body’s biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the heart. Via the IVC, cancer may infiltrate the liver […]

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