Science & Medicine
Science & Medicine is a collaboration between TPR and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, about how scientific discovery in San Antonio advances the way medicine is practiced everywhere.
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Loneliness and social isolation can make you as sick as obesity or 15 cigarettes a day.
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When people think about things they can do to stay healthy, they don’t think about their teeth nearly enough.
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It’s a big moment, when someone — often dad — cuts a newborn’s umbilical cord. But before you cut it, you clamp it to stop blood flow, and UT Health San Antonio is involved in a study that’s trying to determine whether when you clamp the cord matters in babies with congenital heart disease.
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When Bruce Willis, an action movie star known for his way with words, started to lose his language skills, it made news. He had aphasia.
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“No study had been funded to really look at the needs of our Latino cancer survivors. We're the first study to be doing this," said Dr. Amelie Ramirez, chair of Population Health Sciences at UT Health San Antonio. "And they are so grateful to us because they said, 'nobody's bothered to ask me about my cancer journey.'”
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Do you ever think about all that’s involved in just swallowing a bit of breakfast taco or a sip of coffee?
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Selina Morgan holds a doctorate in physical therapy, a board certification in neurological physical therapy, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at UT Health San Antonio. She believes that there are thousands of people out there in wheelchairs who don’t have to be.
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Dr. Ginnie Abarbanell is chief of pediatric cardiology at UT Health San Antonio. She takes care of all kinds of kids, ranging from little ones with heart murmurs to children with congenital heart disease – which is more common than you might think.
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Congenital heart disease can often be detected at the mid-pregnancy ultrasound, which dramatically improves outcomes. But too many people don’t get adequate prenatal care.
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A UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher has discovered something really interesting about Alzheimer’s disease.
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Ozempic isn’t the only exciting diabetes medication out there on the market. Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitorshave a multitude of potential health benefits.
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“One out of three people in our entire country have pre-diabetes,” said Dr. Carolina Solis-Herrera, medical director of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolic Health and associate professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, UT Health San Antonio. “And if you remove the pediatric population in the United States, it's one out of two.”