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Anibal Diogenes, D.D.S., Ph. D., is an endodontist, the branch of dentistry that deals with the innermost part of the tooth called pulp, a connective tissue that has immunological, reparative functions.

The journey began with the story of the Spanish boar that saved Castro’s life.

Imagine one day your child bites down on something and the enamel on one of their teeth starts to crumble. That can happen in a condition called molar incisor hypomineralization — otherwise known as chalky teeth.

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

Cancer care is about to experience a silver tsunami.

If you’re experiencing chronic pain, adjusting your diet might help.

Loneliness and social isolation can make you as sick as obesity or 15 cigarettes a day.

COVID’s winter wave has blanketed the nation, along with flu. After a brief decline, hospitalizations for both COVID and flu have increased again in Texas.

When people think about things they can do to stay healthy, they don’t think about their teeth nearly enough.

It’s a big moment, when someone — often dad — cuts a newborn’s umbilical cord. But before you cut it, you clamp it to stop blood flow, and UT Health San Antonio is involved in a study that’s trying to determine whether when you clamp the cord matters in babies with congenital heart disease.

When Bruce Willis, an action movie star known for his way with words, started to lose his language skills, it made news. He had aphasia.

“No study had been funded to really look at the needs of our Latino cancer survivors. We're the first study to be doing this," said Dr. Amelie Ramirez, chair of Population Health Sciences at UT Health San Antonio. "And they are so grateful to us because they said, 'nobody's bothered to ask me about my cancer journey.'”

Do you ever think about all that’s involved in just swallowing a bit of breakfast taco or a sip of coffee?

Selina Morgan holds a doctorate in physical therapy, a board certification in neurological physical therapy, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at UT Health San Antonio. She believes that there are thousands of people out there in wheelchairs who don’t have to be.

What does the science say about ice baths and cold plunges? TPR's Bioscience and Medicine reporter Bonnie Petrie 'dives in'

Dr. Ginnie Abarbanell is chief of pediatric cardiology at UT Health San Antonio. She takes care of all kinds of kids, ranging from little ones with heart murmurs to children with congenital heart disease – which is more common than you might think.

Congenital heart disease can often be detected at the mid-pregnancy ultrasound, which dramatically improves outcomes. But too many people don’t get adequate prenatal care.

A UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher has discovered something really interesting about Alzheimer’s disease.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.