Wendy Rigby
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San Antonio, TX, United States
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What's On The Menu? Chefs In Training Learn Healthier Ways To Cook
You’ve probably noticed it in grocery stores and restaurants…a trend toward healthier food offerings with fewer calories, less fat and less sugar. As part → Read More
Texas Chagas Taskforce Tackles Kissing Bug Disease
Of the 20 locally-acquired cases of Chagas disease in 2016 in Texas, Bexar County had the most. Chagas disease is caused by a parasite carried by kissing → Read More
Mental, Women's, Public Health Laws Take Effect Today
It’s a big week in Texas. Starting today, more than 600 new laws approved by state legislators and signed by Governor Greg Abbott go into effect. → Read More
TPR Lifeline: 160,000 Men Will Get Prostate Cancer Diagnosis This Year
San Antonio urologist Johnny Reyna, MD, talks about about what men and the women who love them need to know about a sometimes stealthy disease: prostate → Read More
TPR Lifeline: Clinical Genetics Is A Growing Field
We all have about 24,000 genes. How those genes are structured and interact can determine our current health and our future health. Modern medicine → Read More
Zebrafish May Help Scientists Find New Cancer Treatments
The key to finding a better way to treat a deadly form of childhood cancer may lie in a tiny fish. An unlikely animal model at UT Health San Antonio is → Read More
Texas Ranks Last For Available, Affordable Healthcare
Texas ranks dead last in a new list ranking access and affordability of healthcare. The high percentage of Texans without health insurance is part of the → Read More
TPR Lifeline: What If Your Child Doesn't Sleep Like A Baby?
We generally don’t think about children having any trouble sleeping. Consider the phrase “sleep like a baby.” In reality, though, three in ten children may → Read More
Cluster Of HIV Cases Involves Hispanic Men In San Antonio
San Antonio physicians are being alerted about a rapidly growing cluster of new HIV cases. These infections are being monitored by the Centers for Disease → Read More
San Antonio's New Medical School Opens For Business
The new University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine on San Antonio’s South side opened with fanfare this Thursday. → Read More
Some Antibiotics May Cause Tendon Problems
Antibiotics are supposed to make people better. Now, though, a Texas doctor has documented more evidence of a risk the Food and Drug Administration → Read More
Oral Immunotherapy Gains Traction As An Emerging Treatment For Food Allergies
According to the group Food Allergy Research and Education , almost 6 million American children have some sort of food allergy. It can be stressful and → Read More
Texas Man Hospitalized With Vibrio From Gulf Waters
As people flock to Texas beaches this month, some unseen threats to their health are living in the water. A South Texas man is hospitalized with a serious → Read More
UT Health To Train More Therapists To Treat PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a common problem among military veterans. Now, UT Health San Antonio is launching a statewide program to train more → Read More
Hill Country Healthcare Protest A Display Of Frustration
In Fredericksburg over the weekend, opponents of the latest proposed healthcare bill in the U.S. Senate rallied publicly. In the middle of Cruz and Cornyn → Read More
Losing Weight May Help Keep Breast Cancer From Returning
Being overweight puts women at greater risk for breast cancer. It also increases the chance the cancer will come back. New research shows shedding extra → Read More
Cutting Down On Dye: Safer Heart Procedures For Kidney Patients
South Texas has more than its share of kidney disease. A high incidence of diabetes puts people at risk of renal failure. Heart procedures can threaten → Read More
TPR Lifeline: Diabetes And Brittle Bones
Diabetics are at risk of many serious side effects like heart trouble, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness and amputations. Now, there’s growing → Read More
San Antonio's New Medical School Opens This Summer
One of the newest medical schools in the country is opening in San Antonio this summer. It’s a school of osteopathic medicine which plans to train its → Read More
UT Health Cancer Center Wins $9.1 Million Grant
Breast and prostate cancer are the targets of a new 9 million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute to the UT Health Cancer Center in San Antonio → Read More