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Science & Medicine: The next Ozempic? Dec 03, 2023

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Ozempic isn’t the only exciting diabetes medication out there on the market. Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitorshave a multitude of potential health benefits.

CDC wants to fortify corn masa flour with folic acid to prevent birth defects Nov 25, 2023

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For the last 25 years, the U.S. has required that grain and cereal products be fortified with folic acid — and the CDC is now urging manufacturers of products made using corn masa flour to add the B vitamin to minimize the risk of birth defects in the Latino population.

Science & Medicine: The Brain Bank Nov 19, 2023

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At the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the brain bank is accepting deposits.

Science & Medicine: Counter Long COVID with pacing Nov 12, 2023

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Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, chair of rehabilitation medicine at UT Health San Antonio, teaches her patients to practice what she calls pacing and other techniques to conserve energy.

Science & Medicine: Omega 3 fatty acids to fight Alzheimer’s Nov 04, 2023

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If you’re in your 40s or 50s, there may be something you can do right now to fight Alzheimer’s disease. It involves Omega 3 fatty acids – the good stuff in fatty fish and fish oil, which has been linked to lower rates of dementia for a while.

Science & Medicine: Using AI for brain health diagnoses Oct 28, 2023

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We’ve heard a lot about artificial intelligence lately, and some of it is unsettling. But AI also has great potential to improve and even save lives.

Science & Medicine: Brain healthy diets Oct 20, 2023

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Researchers have suspected that foods which cause inflammation speed up brain aging and cognitive decline, but UT Health San Antonio's Debora Melo van Lent wanted evidence.

Science & Medicine: Long COVID and the road to recovery Oct 06, 2023

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Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, professor and chair of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been running two long COVID clinics since early in the pandemic, and she says every case is different.

'The bugs are winning' — Researchers are fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis Sep 30, 2023

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The antibiotics that only 80 years ago turned TB from a voracious killer of an estimated 1 billion people to a treatable disease just don’t work anymore.

Inside America’s last remaining free standing tuberculosis hospital Sep 14, 2023

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Did you know there is still one tuberculosis hospital in the United States? There is just one: The Texas Center for Infectious Disease in San Antonio. Host Bonnie Petrie takes us there.

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