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A federal grant will bolster University Health System’s efforts to end the spread of HIV in Bexar and surrounding counties. The $200,000 grant funds the new campaign, “Stay in the Game: What’s Your Score?”, an outreach effort to connect people living with HIV/AIDS to healthcare. “The virus’ increase is mostly among young people, and it’s very hard to connect them to care,” said Dr. Roberto Villarreal, University Health System’s senior vice...

With the aim of creating a more seamless experience for our patients, University Health System is adopting the Epic electronic medical record system, or EMR, after a thorough review. Epic is the EMR of choice at leading academic medical centers across the country, and is used by our physician partners at UT Health San Antonio. In February, the Board of Managers approved moving forward with the purchase and implementation of Epic, a process expected to be complete by July 2020. While there are...

Release of latest Community Trauma Report will also focus on the critical importance of South Texas’ unique civilian-military trauma partnership Six months after the tragedy at Sutherland Springs put our community’s trauma system to the test, community leaders continue to rally in support of preserving the nation’s only civilian-military partnership between the Level I trauma centers at University Hospital and Brooke Army Medical Center. On Tuesday, May 29, University...

Born at only 24 weeks and weighing 1.3 pounds, little Amber Zepeda survived a host of life-threatening medical problems related to extreme prematurity thanks to the advanced care and research available at an academic health center’s Level IV NICU.

A collaborative study looks at whether prenatal changes might head off a future diagnosis of obesity and diabetes for those at high risk.

New guidelines are aimed at reducing rejection and improving the health of recipients.

American Diabetes Institute, Dr. Carlos Rosende and Dr. Eugenio Cersosimo joining the names on Saul Trevino Wall of Honor.

Safety and effectiveness of drugs to be determined in patients with life-threatening seizures taken to University Hospital’s Emergency Department.

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is the first study site in the United States to offer a clinical trial evaluating a promising new immunotherapy agent in children and young adults who do not respond well to traditional therapy or whose cancer comes back.

Three-year STAAMP Trial will examine whether tranexamic acid will lower the risk of death in adult trauma patients before they get to the hospital