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People Who Preserve ‘Immune Resilience’ Live Longer, Resist Infections

Multinational study identifies immune resilience as a factor that influences life span, HIV/AIDS, flu, sepsis mortality, recurrent skin cancer and COVID-19 mortality

FDA Green-Lights Bionic Pancreas Studied at Ut Health Science Center, University Health

Artificial intelligence insulin delivery and glucose monitoring system cleared for age 6 and older

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Mays Cancer Center Conducts Only Clinical Trial in America of a Specific Drug Combination for Lethal Brain Cancer Glioblastoma

An improvement in 6-month progression-free survival warrants additional study in a larger trial, researchers said.

Molecule Shows Potential to Combat Treatment Resistance in Brain Tumor Glioblastoma

Glioblastoma-impacted mice lived longer when treated with combination of molecule drug and chemotherapy agent

Diabetes Self-Care Reached by 32% Who Built Trust with Community Health Workers

One-third of 986 patients achieved long-term self-care of their type 2 diabetes after building trusting relationships with community health workers (promotores in Spanish) over 12 weeks

Robotic Kidney Cancer Surgery Shows Desirable Outcomes in Study

Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body’s biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the heart.

Telehealth Enables 8 Texas Nurseries to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Newborns by 32%

Telehealth consultations with a pediatric infectious disease specialist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reduced the number of newborns receiving antibiotics by 32% in eight geographically distant nurseries that serve rural and medically underserved areas of South Texas, a study shows.

Small Fraction of Eligible Texas Clinicians Prescribing Lifesaving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Despite scientific evidence that the medication buprenorphine/naloxone (or Suboxone) effectively treats opioid use disorder (OUD)

Studies Compare Best Ways to Treat Wide-Neck Aneurysms

Microsurgery with clips is weighed against coils, stents deployed via catheters.

Dozens More Genes Linked with Stroke; Potential Drug Targets Identified

Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are part of an international team that discovered 61 additional genetic loci associated with stroke and six genes that are potential targets for drug therapy to prevent or treat stroke.

Trial Shows Bionic Pancreas Improves Type 1 Diabetes Management Compared to Standard Insulin Delivery Methods

A device known as a bionic pancreas, which uses next-generation technology to automatically deliver insulin, was more effective at maintaining blood glucose (sugar) levels within normal range than standard-of-care management among people with type 1 diabetes, a new multicenter clinical trial has found.

Global Study, Supported by Alzheimer’s Association, Aims to Shed Light on Covid-19’s Impact on the Brain

Debra Gutierrez of Von Ormy, Texas, near San Antonio has been an active person all her life.

Oral Pill Improves Care of Patients with Bone Marrow Cancer: Study

Momelotinib, an oral pill taken once a day, significantly improved outcomes of patients treated for myelofibrosis (MF), a rare but fatal bone marrow cancer, researchers reported June 7.

Chemical Risk Assessment Not Up to Par, Researchers Say

How much is an “acceptable dose” of a pollutant?

New Therapy Significantly Reduces Headache Disability, Post-Traumatic Stress After Brain Injury, Study Finds

The first therapy to be developed specifically for post-traumatic headache significantly reduced related disability in veterans following a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Promising Compound Kills Range of Hard-To-Treat Cancers by Targeting a Previously Undiscovered Vulnerability

ERX-41, developed by UT Health San Antonio scientists, exploits a previously unrecognized weakness in breast cancer and other solid tumors.

The massive need for equitable Latino representation in clinical trials

Contributed and written by Cliff Despres, Institute for Health Promotion Research

Small Fraction of Eligible Texas Clinicians Prescribing Lifesaving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Despite scientific evidence that the medication buprenorphine/naloxone (or Suboxone) effectively treats opioid use disorder (OUD)

In the Race to Solve Alzheimer’s Disease, Scientists Find More Needles in the Haystack

Thanks to international collaboration, more genetic variations for Alzheimer’s disease are known today than ever before.