Headline News: HSC receives DiversityFIRST™ achievement award   
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Cherri Hicks, M.S.N., APRN, chair of the Committee for the Advancement of Women and Minorities, holds the 2012 DiversityFIRST™ Corporate Achievement Award that was recently presented to the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. The <a href=><a href=http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/pdf/Culturally_proficient_ care.pdf>Culturally Proficient Health Care conference</a> held this fall is just one of many initiatives being undertaken to promote culturally proficiency through education and practice. .....more»

Headline News: Regents establish scholarship in Chancellor Cigarroa’s name   
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The University of Texas System Board of Regents has authorized the establishment of a scholarship endowment to honor Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D. The scholarship endowment will support students attending the new medical school in South Texas. The Laredo native and third-generation physician was president of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio from 1995 through 2009......more»

Headline News: Dr. Bailey saves cardiac patient's life with TAVR procedure   
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Roy Robinson, a Vietnam veteran from Carlsbad, N.M., said his doctors gave him one or two years to live with no hope of regaining quality of life. However, Steven R. Bailey, M.D., a cardiologist at UT Medicine San Antonio was able to restore Robinson’s quality of life by using Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for the treatment of critical aortic stenosis. TAVR can now be used for a wider range of cardiac patients......more»

Headline News: UT Medicine signs affiliation agreement with MinuteClinic    
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark, and UT Medicine San Antonio, the academic medical practice of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, have entered into a clinical affiliation to enhance access to high-quality, affordable health care services in the region. .....more»

Headline News: Respiratory care students teach kids about asthma   
Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Ask elementary school kids to make artificial “mucus” and have them push it through a cardboard tube representing an inflamed airway, and they get a better understanding of asthma. Respiratory care faculty members and students from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio presented hands-on lessons recently to help children with asthma and their parents understand how to prevent and control the chronic lung disease......more»

Headline News: Four research teams receive UTS quality improvement grants    
Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Four groups of researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have received Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality grants totaling $414,828 from The University of Texas System. The grants will be used for research, medical education or clinical collaboration projects. Among them is Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, M.D., who received a grant of $169,020......more»

Headline News: Neuroscientist studies how nerves conduct impulses in MS   
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
In multiple sclerosis (MS), the body mistakes the myelin sheath around nerve axons as foreign material and attacks it. New UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher Manzoor Bhat, Ph.D., professor and chair of physiology, is studying a pair of proteins that play a role in the speed of nerve conduction in hopes of restoring motor function to patients with M.S. .....more»

Headline News: $1.2 million funds studies of Alzheimer’s cell biology   
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Two newly funded grants totaling $1.2 million will support studies of Alzheimer’s disease at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. Principal investigator of the grants is Qitao Ran, Ph.D., an assistant professor of cellular and structural biology in the School of Medicine......more»

Headline News: Unlocking the mysteries of Conrad’s brain   
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Liz Tullis cradles her son, Conrad, and lays him gently down, stroking his feet for reassurance. He has to be relaxed — better yet, asleep — for magnetic resonance imaging. The 10-year-old has anoxic brain injury from a pool accident nine years ago. He is participating in an imaging study at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio to better understand how these injuries affect the brain in order to maximize the children’s life skills. .....more»

Headline News: Screening program to test baby boomers for hepatitis C    
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Hepatitis C virus appears to strike South Texas Hispanics disproportionately, and some persons are not diagnosed until the liver-harming infection is in its late stages. And statistics show that baby boomers born between 1945 and 1965 are at heightened risk. UT Medicine San Antonio and the University Health System have begun a Hepatitis C testing program based on new CDC guidelines. .....more»