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  • Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer Survivors After Treatment

    Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer Survivors After Treatment
    2026/10/04
    Kirsten Eom studies everything that goes into getting a cancer survivor from their front door to a doctor's office: insurance, transportation, follow-up care, and more. The UT Health San Antonio researcher has found that a surprising number of survivors stop seeing doctors once initial treatment ends. Now she's working to build a statewide registry to track the barriers keeping them away.
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    2 分
  • Petrie Dish: Lone star ticks will be out in force this fall. Here's how to avoid their bites.

    Petrie Dish: Lone star ticks will be out in force this fall. Here's how to avoid their bites.
    2026/10/03
    Cooler fall temperatures mean an increase in daytime lone star tick activity in areas where sweltering summer temperatures kept them at bay. This type of tick is more aggressive than most other ticks, and it presents a unique threat to the people they bite. The sugar in their saliva can cause humans to develop a dangerous allergy to red meat.
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    16 分
  • Science & Medicine: Training a new front line for Texas mental health care

    Science & Medicine: Training a new front line for Texas mental health care
    2026/09/27
    Only about 30% of Texans who need mental health support are getting it, and the shortage of providers is projected to worsen dramatically over the next decade. A UT Health San Antonio psychologist has developed a program that teaches counseling skills to non-specialists like community health workers, faith-based practitioners, and even doulas.
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    2 分
  • Petrie Dish: 'Checking out' connection

    Petrie Dish: 'Checking out' connection
    2026/09/22
    A visit to a neighborhood library reveals what a loneliness researcher calls a "third place" in action: ESL classes, new parents bringing their toddlers to storytime, remote workers on their laptops, and neighbors who show up just to be around other people. It's one solution to the crisis explored in our two-part series on loneliness that you can 'check out' with nothing more than a library card.
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    20 分
  • Science & Medicine: Studying the 'form and function' of prostate cancer's main driver leads to a breakthrough

    Science & Medicine: Studying the 'form and function' of prostate cancer's main driver leads to a breakthrough
    2026/09/20
    A San Antonio scientist thinks of the protein that drives most prostate cancers as a machine, and pioneers a method to visualize it for the first time. This could lead to much better treatments and, someday, prevention.
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    2 分
  • Petrie Dish: The lonely body and the social cure

    Petrie Dish: The lonely body and the social cure
    2026/09/15
    In the second part of Petrie Dish’s exploration of loneliness, host Bonnie Petrie looks at what it takes to fight isolation, from teen gathering spaces to libraries and “chatty cafes,” and how communities can be designed to bring people together.
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    24 分
  • Science & Medicine: AI tool aims to cut deadly delays in Texas trauma care

    Science & Medicine: AI tool aims to cut deadly delays in Texas trauma care
    2026/09/13
    In rural Texas, severely injured patients often wait more than two hours to reach specialized trauma care. A UT Health San Antonio trauma surgeon is co-leading an effort to change that with an AI tool designed to help emergency doctors make faster transfer decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
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    2 分
  • Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to eliminate cervical cancer

    Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to eliminate cervical cancer
    2026/09/06
    The UT Health San Antonio professor who is leading an effort to increase the number of South Texas teens who are vaccinated against the human papillomavirus hopes to see cervical cancer eliminated in the United States in her lifetime.
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    2 分