UT Health San Antonio

UT San Antonio's School of Public Health has been renamed following a $30 million donation from the Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation. The gift will help fund infrastructure and research aimed at improving healthcare access in underserved communities across South Texas.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans live with traumatic brain injuries that can trigger chronic headaches, often made worse by PTSD. A researcher at UT Health San Antonio is using AI to help predict and prevent the pain before it starts.

Obesity rates in South Texas exceed the national average, but many patients hesitate to pursue bariatric surgery due to the risks involved. UT Health San Antonio now offers endoscopic alternatives that achieve comparable weight loss results with no incisions, shorter recovery times, and lower risk.

You don’t have to be a football player or a bull rider to have a traumatic brain injury. You don’t even have to hit your head. More than half go undetected. New national guidelines aim to help primary care doctors catch them sooner.

The experimental therapy is designed to activate the immune system's ability to not only recognize and destroy cancer cells, but to remember them, so the body continues to attack tumors between treatments.

A UT Health San Antonio researcher is working to map the nerves involved in jaw pain as part of a federally funded consortium aimed at developing the first targeted, non-opioid treatment for chronic pain, research he hopes will give millions of suffering Americans their lives back and ultimately reverse or even prevent pain in the first place.

UT Health San Antonio has launched a new Center for Excellence in Diabetes to advance treatment and work toward a cure for a disease that impacts about one in six people in San Antonio. The center will bring together clinicians, researchers and trainees to better understand the wide range of symptoms and complications of diabetes that can vary from patient to patient.

When hospital patients have trouble breathing, respiratory therapists often reach for Albuterol, but a San Antonio researcher thinks it may be overused. He and his students are measuring patient response to the drug, hoping to bring more evidence-based medicine to respiratory care.

The new Center for Excellence in Diabetes will focus on research, clinical trials and prevention for a disease affecting about one in six people in the San Antonio area.

Chronic kidney disease with no clear cause is killing young people who do physical labor in Central America at an alarming rate. A UT Health San Antonio researcher has spent a decade looking for answers, and this summer, he'll study similar workers in San Antonio to see if clues he uncovers here can save lives there.