Because of lessons learned on the battlefields, South Texas patients are receiving lifesaving whole blood transfusions—before ever reaching the hospital.
What used to be called adult-onset diabetes is now hitting children at alarming rates. While San Antonio bears the burden of being the epicenter for diabetes, it is also a hotbed for research.
Her research aims to develop novel, therapeutic targets in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes by harnessing the brain stem’s neural circuitry responsible for the regulation of vagal drive.
After witnessing a history of cancer in his family, Ruben Mesa, M.D., believes that cancer is a thief, not because it may kill you. After all, each of us will die. It’s because it steals life early.
The year-long research training program allows students to pause their university studies to live and conduct basic, clinical or translational research work on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Researchers and inventors at University of Texas institutions are once again among the world’s most innovative, based on the number of patents granted in 2018.
Lisa Cleveland, Ph.D., RN, remembers her first encounter with new mothers who struggle with drug addiction and their babies born with drug withdrawal symptoms. She found they were not the selfish, uncaring women they are often portrayed to be.
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