Bonnie Petrie
Bioscience & Medicine Reporterbonnie@TPR.org
BlueSky: @bonniepetrie.bsky.social
Bonnie Petrie covers bioscience and medicine for Texas Public Radio and is the host of the Petrie Dish podcast, which explores the intersection of science, medicine, and life in the 2020s. She also brings you the latest research happening at UT Health San Antonio in a weekly report called Science & Medicine.
Bonnie grew up on the Canadian border in northern New York, but called Texas home for more than 20 years. She has twice been nominated for the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in recognition of her work in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, but claims she's still too young for all that. She has also received many Edward R Murrow, Associated Press, and other journalism awards. She and Petrie Dish have been honored with several Gracie Awards from The Alliance for Women in Media, including personal recognition as the best host of a local show in the nation.
Bonnie is mom to a college student, two dogs, two cats and spends her free time solving family mysteries using genetic genealogy.
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A UT San Antonio Health Science Center researcher has found that people with resilient immune systems can live 15 years longer than those who don't, but what is immune resilience? How do you know if your immune system is lagging? Can you get some of those years back? -
The Enhanced Premium Tax Credit is set to expire at the end of the year. San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro says an extension is part of the negotiation for a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, but that negotiation has stalled. -
A San Antonio researcher is working on a drug that could treat Ewing sarcoma and rhabdomyosarcoma without lifelong side effects. It would be the first new treatment option for these childhood cancers in 30 years.
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The program, called Naloxone Texas, distributes free Narcan to students, faculty, and staff, and provides them with overdose response training. -
Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, and an effective vaccine has been elusive. But a San Antonio malaria researcher and her team have discovered a vulnerability in the malaria parasite's method of avoiding the human immune system that may make all the difference. -
Petrie Dish host Bonnie Petrie sits down with Public Health Watch reporter Raquel Torres to talk about her story on the Alzheimer's crisis in the Rio Grande Valley, as well as a $3 billion proposal to fund Alzheimer's research in Texas that won't go forward unless Texans say yes at the polls in November. -
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men and the five year survival rate is 97%. -
En Texas, la actividad viral del COVID-19 en las aguas residuales es “muy alta”, según los CDC. -
In Texas, wastewater viral activity for COVID-19 is 'Very High,' according to the CDC.
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Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, and the American Heart Association aims to reduce that number with new guidelines for healthcare practitioners that focus on understanding the risk and then doing something about it.
