Petrie Dish

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Science & Medicine: A potential game-changer in the fight against deadly oral cancer Mar 09, 2025

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Oral squamous cell carcinoma kills about half of the people who get it, and there have been no new treatments developed for half a century. A UT Health San Antonio dentist has developed a novel drug that may offer these patients a better chance at survival.

Petrie Dish: Q&A on mumps & rubella Mar 04, 2025

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Host Bonnie Petrie talks with Dr. Jason Bowling about the other two diseases in the MMR vaccine, mumps and rubella.

Science & Medicine: Help for women's pelvic health disorders Mar 02, 2025

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Pelvic health disorders can disrupt women's quality of life. The conditions might be considered common and inevitable, but they should not be ignored.

Psychedelics and the Texas Trip Part 1: Unlikely Allies Mar 01, 2025

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Host Bonnie Petrie and reporter Robin Berghaus explore the potential of psychedelic medication as a treatment for mental health diagnoses like depression and PTSD, particularly for use in the veteran population.

Science & Medicine: Sabotaging the molecular engines of some pediatric cancers Feb 23, 2025

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A San Antonio researcher is working on a drug that could treat Ewing sarcoma and rhabdomyosarcoma without lifelong side effects. It would be the first new treatment option for these childhood cancers in 30 years.

Petrie Dish: A Texas measles update and why experts warn this is just the beginning Feb 22, 2025

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An outbreak of measles in West Texas has infected nearly 100 people, most of them unvaccinated children. Dr. Peter Hotez says the ecosystem that led to the elimination of measles in the United States in 2000 has changed as vaccination rates fall, and there will likely be more breakthrough outbreaks of all vaccine-preventable infections.

Science & Medicine: Taking on America's number one killer Feb 16, 2025

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More than six-million American adults are experiencing heart failure right now.

Petrie Dish: CDC purge of forbidden words online creates real-world fear Feb 11, 2025

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Host Bonnie Petrie speaks with Cherise Rohr-Allegrini, CEO of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.

Science & Medicine: A breakthrough for glioblastoma patients that may lengthen lives Feb 09, 2025

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A new technique for delivering radiation to glioblastoma brain tumors may allow doctors to use much higher doses while preserving healthy brain tissue. UT Health San Antonio's Andrew Brenner, MD, PhD, says this may give patients more time.

Petrie Dish: Should the US leave the WHO? 'Your Local Epidemiologist' weighs in Feb 03, 2025

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina and TPR's Bonnie Petrie talk about whether Trump's concerns are valid and what the U.S. could lose if it leaves.

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