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Occupational therapy can help people with mental illness resume meaningful activities in their lives and create strategies that will improve their overall health. A San Antonio OT has developed a program she hopes will help people with a mental illness and type 2 diabetes achieve better control over their disease.

A UT Health San Antonio researcher confirms that how magnesium gets into immune system cells can determine whether they fight oral cancer or support tumor growth. The discovery offers hope for new ways to prevent and treat the disease.

Nimbus is another Omicron subvariant that is known for causing typical COVID symptoms, including an extremely sore throat. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it may become the dominant variant in the U.S. over the next week.

UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital is the first hospital in Texas to approve a non-narcotic painkiller called suzetrigine as a first-line treatment for post-surgery pain. One doctor believes it will become a powerful weapon in the opioid epidemic.

High "bad" cholesterol appears to be linked to both heart disease and dementia, an analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study shows. But "good" cholesterol doesn't appear to protect against Alzheimer's.

Human immunity wanes as we age, but what if it could be restored? A UT Health San Antonio researcher who studies the thymus has confirmed that a certain protein can restore its size and function in mice, leading to a larger and more diverse T cell population that more closely resembles the T cells of youth.

There’s been a second straight single-digit increase in new measles cases tied to the West Texas outbreak, but the state health department also says three new counties reported one case each. Two of the three new counties are just north of Dallas.

A San Antonio collaborative is developing treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections using viruses known as phages. The effort is urgent as infections that don't respond to antibiotics are projected to kill 39 million people by 2050.

A San Antonio sleep disorder and PTSD researcher uses cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce the frequency and intensity of nightmares.

UT Health San Antonio neuroscientist Yu Shin Kim, PhD, has discovered how stress causes migraines, which could lead to treatments that prevent them.