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February 12, 2026
UT Health San Antonio has announced a $5 million gift from longtime supporters Bill and Rebecca Reed to advance its Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases. The gift will address a pressing need to find critical solutions for individuals facing dementia, a prevalent disease facing many residents across South Texas.
January 30, 2026
A new support group at the UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health is giving patients with Parkinson’s disease a rare opportunity: to learn directly from other patients who have already undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical treatment that can significantly improve quality of life but remains widely underused.
January 26, 2026
The free art program — a collaboration between the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio and the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) — brings people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their caregivers and families together through meaningful conversation, shared memories and hands-on creative experiences.
January 5, 2026
The San Antonio Spurs, in partnership with UT Health San Antonio, the clinical enterprise of The University of Texas at San Antonio, took charge of the physical education classes at Park Village Blended Learning Academy on Dec. 9 as part of a program to give back to the community and talk to kids about how to make healthy choices.
December 2, 2025
The support, provided through the Face the Fight initiative and backed by USAA, the Humana Foundation and Reach Resilience, will fund AI programs focused on firearm safety conversations and crisis response planning, expanding ongoing work led by The University of Texas at San Antonio and Rush University.
October 30, 2025
With one of the lowest dentist-to-patient ratios in the U.S., and some of the nation’s highest childhood cavity rates, the research team is launching a school-centered program to promote prevention and build lifelong healthy habits.
