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San Antonio health care looks vastly different on the North Side

WEBResidents in census tracts on the South Side can expect to live into their early 70s on average, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and …

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Bexar County working to fix health disparities documented in E-N …

WEBBexar County Manager David Smith will hire a county public health director and other core staff as part of an initiative to revamp health care in fast-growing outlying …

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Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a …

WEBAs a professor in medicine and public health, I have been studying bias in the design, conduct and publication of scientific research for 30 years.I’ve been developing …

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Boerne is getting its first acute care hospital. Here's what you need

WEBBaptist Health System paid $50 million for 23 acres along the northwest corner of Interstate 10 and Texas 46 in Boerne. The acute care hospital will be the city's …

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So you're sick. But is it COVID-19, RSV, the flu or a cold

WEBInfection typically occurs within one to four days of exposure, with symptoms including body aches, chills, cough, fatigue, fever, headache, sore throat and stuffy …

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Health Reporter, San Antonio Express-News

WEBLauren Caruba is an investigative reporter specializing in health and medicine. During the coronavirus pandemic she led the paper's medical coverage, embedding in COVID-19 …

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University Health to convert credit union building for women’s …

WEBUniversity Health plans to convert the Credit Human Federal Credit Union building at 8403 Wurzbach Road into a state-of-the-art Women’s Breast Center …

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University Health starts work on scaled-back South Side hospital

WEBUniversity Health has begun construction of a long-planned — but now scaled back — hospital on the South Side near Texas A&M University-San Antonio, one …

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Cyberattack costs hit UnitedHealth in 1Q that still turns out better

WEBFILE - Pages from the United Healthcare website are displayed on a computer screen, Feb. 29, 2024, in New York. UnitedHealth Group trounced first-quarter …

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A new UT Health study about autism stirs fear instead of acceptance.

WEBAn Express-News article recently reported on research from a team at UT Health about neurological functioning, or how people process information and respond …

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As Medicaid cuts hit, San Antonio hospitals are challenged but …

WEBUniversity Health is preparing for the influx of those who are still unaware their Medicaid coverage has ended. It estimates the total in San Antonio is likely to rise …

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More Texans than ever before enrolled in ACA health plans in 2024

WEBEnrollment runs through January 15, 2022. More Texans than ever have signed up for cheap or free health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, with …

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Less than 6 percent of doctors are Latino. Researcher says …

WEBBrianna Bal is a student at medical student at UT Health San Antonio. At its Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, Hispanic students make up 20.4 …

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UN approves an updated cholera vaccine that could help fight a …

WEBFILE - A family enters a tent set aside for cholera patients at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Nov. 18, 2023. The World Health Organization has approved a …

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UT Health study: Avoiding toxins could prevent autism, ADHD

WEBResearchers at UT Health San Antonio first linked chemical intolerance in mothers with the risk of their children developing autism or ADHD in a 2015 study. …

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Sen. Warren blasts company that closed San Antonio hospital last …

WEBSteward announced in March 2023 that it would close the 327-bed Texas Vista hospital effective May 1, 2023, unless Bexar County and University Health took …

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Joaquin Castro diagnosed with cancer, has surgery at MD Anderson

WEBKin Man Hui/Staff photographer. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro underwent surgery in Houston on Monday morning for cancer found in his small intestine. The type …

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Legislation allowing doctor-assisted suicide narrowly clears …

WEBThe bill is the latest iteration of legislation that has been repeatedly introduced by Newark Democrat Paul Baumbach since 2015, and it is the only proposal to make it …

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UN report points to yawning gap of inequality in sexual and

WEBFILE - A woman carries a her baby and a bucket of water in Harare on April 6, 2020. A new study says an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from …

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UT Health San Antonio mourns the loss of its longtime president

WEBDr. William L. Henrich, longtime president of UT Health San Antonio, led a transformation of the medical school into a top-ranked institution with programs in …

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Sex, NSFW texts and dentist Francesco Sebastiani’s trail of …

WEBOne of Dr. Francesco Sebastiani’s cases — against University Health and UT Health San Antonio — is slated to go to trial April 8 in San Antonio federal court.

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Christus taps Denver exec Grant Wicklund to lead Santa Rosa …

WEBGrant Wicklund is the new CEO of Christus Santa Rosa Health System. Christus Health’s San Antonio hospitals have new leadership. The health system said …

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Layoffs hit San Antonio's WellMed Medical, other Optum companies

WEBEarlier this year, a San Antonio doctor who provided health care to WellMed patients for 25 years before his termination in October sued the company for …

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