A team of San Antonio researchers is training artificial intelligence models to help improve the materials used to make things like cavity fillings and dental sealants, which currently tend to be either unattractive or not as durable as they could be. This could dramatically decrease the time it takes to get better products into dentists' offices and clients' mouths.

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age.

Millions of Americans use weed to treat chronic pain, but there's little high quality research on whether it works. New findings suggest it can be effective for low back pain, on par with opioids.

Think Science: A New Era for Advancing Brain Health took place on Sept. 22, 2025 and featured three researchers and their work, and offered a preview of UT San Antonio's new Center for Brain Health, opening in December. Listen to the full presentation and see slides from the event at the link. Thanks to SAWS for sponsoring this Think Science presentation.

The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as the company rolls the product out state-by-state.

The hsCRP test checks for inflammation in your heart, a sign of plaque formation in your coronary artery.

CTE can rob a person of their memories and ability to make decisions and plans. It can also cause a person to become a threat to themselves and, sometimes, others. But the disease, caused by repeated head trauma, can't be definitively diagnosed before death. A San Antonio researcher hopes to help change that.

One department at the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Public Health is focused on understanding the health challenges associated with a changing climate and developing solutions to mitigate or even prevent them.

Is there a connection? Bonnie Petrie talks with a pediatrician who specializes in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism about the president's claims on Tylenol and the MMR vaccine as potential causes of autism and a form of vitamin B9 as a potential treatment.

San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro asks Governor Abbott not to let President Trump use Texas troops as 'props' in 'a kind of invasion' of Illinois. He also urges members of the House GOP to come back to the negotiating table to end the government shutdown.