By: Dr. Ramon Cancino, M.D., Primary Care, UT Health Hill Country The flu season will quickly descend upon San Antonio and collide with the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must do our best to prepare. To do this, everyone who is able to get a flu shot must do...
By: Jessica Binkley As many schools are opening remotely this year, eyes are focused on how this will affect students’ academic learning. But extracurricular activities like band, choir, theater and athletics are also vital to the healthy development of...
By: Joe Feist As the coronavirus marches on with no end in sight and summer turns to fall, health officials across the country are increasingly concerned by a possible catastrophe: a “twindemic,” or surge in COVID-19 cases coupled with a severe, or even...
By: Rosanne Fohn UT Health San Antonio, with its clinical partner University Health System, are among the first study sites in the nation to begin the third phase of the COVID-19 clinical trial involving remdesivir. The Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial...
By: Jessica Binkley “Stay safe, stay healthy!” For many, this has become the new sign-off of choice. And while we all now know the best practices to stay safe — wearing a mask, frequent hand washing and social distancing — staying healthy during the...
By: Jessica Binkley With more sports teams from The University of Texas at San Antonio approaching the return of their season, and a new conference rule requiring weekly COVID-19 tests for all athletes, coaches and trainers, the School of Nursing stepped...
By: Dr. Maria Fernandez Falcon, pediatrician at UT Health Physicians COVID-19 has spread around the world; it can affect anyone, from young children to seniors. Scientists are still learning about how the virus behaves and the characteristics of this...
Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been elected an officer on the national board of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Dr. Mesa is director of the Mays Cancer Center, where he holds the Mays Family Foundation Distinguished University Presidential Chair. The...
As student athletes from The University of Texas at San Antonio begin to return to campus to practice for the upcoming season, new testing policies supported by the UT Health Physicians primary care team ensure that activities can resume as safely as...
By: Joe Feist In the face of a pandemic, the only risk-free course of action is to never go outside your front door. But it’s summer, you’re stir crazy and outside your window a big, beautiful highway is calling. Even as the coronavirus speeds on, the...