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Science & Medicine: UT Health San Antonio study finds magnetic stimulation significantly reduces combat PTSD symptoms

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Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer Survivors After Treatment

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Petrie Dish: Lone star ticks will be out in force this fall. Here's how to avoid their bites.

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Science & Medicine: Training a new front line for Texas mental health care

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Petrie Dish: 'Checking out' connection

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Science & Medicine: Studying the 'form and function' of prostate cancer's main driver leads to a breakthrough

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Petrie Dish: The lonely body and the social cure

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Science & Medicine: AI tool aims to cut deadly delays in Texas trauma care

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Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to eliminate cervical cancer

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Petrie Dish: Summer COVID wave climbing as flu season looms

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Science & Medicine: The circadian clock that controls fat-burning

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Science & Medicine: Communicating with Aphasia

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Science & Medicine: San Antonio's fungus lab is on the front line of a growing drug-resistance crisis

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Petrie Dish: San Antonio study finds that even light exercise can protect the aging brain

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Science & Medicine: Swallowing ‘workout’ for people with early Parkinson’s

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Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer Survivors After Treatment

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Science & Medicine: Spinal cord injury and walking again

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Petrie Dish: The lonely body

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Science & Medicine: Small daily choices can have a big impact on your dementia risk

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Science & Medicine: Pursuing precision medicine for Alzheimer's disease

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Science & Medicine: Training health care workers to save lives in Texas maternity care deserts

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Petrie Dish: The Pentagon's flu vaccine policy change created an 'epidemiological time bomb' at Lackland

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Science & Medicine: Scanning the brain to improve treatment for traumatized teens

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Science & Medicine: A San Antonio researcher is studying magnets and money to treat alcohol use disorder

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Science & Medicine: Relaxing excited neurons may lead to more effective treatments for schizophrenia

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Petrie Dish: Understanding the risks New World screwworm poses to livestock, pets, and people

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Science & Medicine: MDMA could revolutionize PTSD treatment for the military

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Science & Medicine: A pill that slows aging? San Antonio researchers are putting it to the test

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Science & Medicine: Tooth pain with a purpose

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Science & Medicine: Strengthening your teeth

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Petrie Dish: Does the cruise ship hantavirus pose a threat to the United States?

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Science & Medicine: For veterans with traumatic brain injuries, AI offers a new weapon against post-traumatic headaches

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Petrie Dish: When schizophrenia is a treatable autoimmune disease

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Science & Medicine: Using technology to improve health equity

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Science & Medicine: Weight loss surgery without the scalpel

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Science & Medicine: San Antonio scientist discovers how stress triggers migraines

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Petrie Dish: New national guidelines target often-missed TBI cases

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Science & Medicine: Pain researchers have their eyes on ending chronic pain

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Science & Medicine: Why are neurodevelopmental disorders common in Duchenne muscular dystrophy?

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Science & Medicine: A San Antonio researcher asks whether the go-to rescue medicine for breathing problems is used too often

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Petrie Dish: Whole milk is back in schools, but not everyone can drink it. Here's how to make sure all kids get a nutritional boost

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Science & Medicine: Exercise is medicine for people with Parkinson's disease

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Science & Medicine: Studying San Antonio construction workers to figure out why laborers in Central America are dying of kidney disease

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Science & Medicine: APOBECs and the fight against cancer

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Petrie Dish: mRNA: Medical miracle and political target

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Science & Medicine: From Valley fever to TB, UT San Antonio opens a center to fight South Texas' most persistent chronic infections

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Petrie Dish: The late-winter deficiency that could be making you sick and miserable

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Science & Medicine: Exercise is medicine for people with Parkinson's disease

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Science & Medicine: An over-the-counter supplement could improve the results of exercise in older adults

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Science & Medicine: The biostatisticians who drive medical research

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Petrie Dish: Punching Back: Evolving science is transforming how Parkinson's disease is treated

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Science & Medicine: Studying the chemical miscommunication that may lead to obesity

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Science & Medicine: A mother's mission transforms care for Chromosome 18 disorders

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Petrie Dish: What's going on with the CDC's vaccine schedule?

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Science & Medicine: The link between sleep apnea and persistent pain

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Science & Medicine: Sleep disorders in the military are complex, common, and treatable

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Petrie Dish: Dr. Peter Hotez looks back over a year of seismic shifts in U.S. health policy

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Science & Medicine: Beneficial effects of a keto diet can be enhanced by intermittent breaks

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Surviving epilepsy in the Medicaid coverage gap

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Navigating the holiday season's mental health minefield

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Science & Medicine: Can acupressure provide a safer pain relief alternative for people with dementia?

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Science & Medicine: A breakthrough for glioblastoma patients that may lengthen lives

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Science & Medicine: A discovery by San Antonio scientists could lead to a new kind of treatment for Alzheimer's disease

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Science & Medicine: The Center for Brain Health could revolutionize how we think about dementia

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Bonus Episode: The scientist who refused to be intimidated

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Culturally connected care: How doulas can improve maternal mental health

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Science & Medicine: A master of endoscopy

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Science & Medicine: Veterans write new endings for their nightmares

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Science & Medicine: Studying the 'form and function' of prostate cancer's main driver leads to a breakthrough

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Science & Medicine: Tinnitus and PTSD

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The science of empathy

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Science & Medicine: AI and the chemistry of dentistry

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Science & Medicine: Diagnosing CTE before death

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Science & Medicine: Meeting climate change-driven health challenges head-on

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Trump, autism, and the Tylenol connection

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Science & Medicine: Hope for patients with the deadliest cancers

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Science & Medicine: Immune resilience and the 15- year lifespan gap

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Science & Medicine: Sabotaging the molecular engines of some pediatric cancers

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Science & Medicine: A San Antonio scientist's team finds malaria's 'Achilles heel,' and it could lead to a vaccine that really works

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Texans will vote on billions of dementia research dollars as a quiet Alzheimer's crisis grows in the Rio Grande Valley

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Science & Medicine: Revolutionizing prostate cancer treatment

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Science & Medicine: LAUNCHing kids into literacy

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Science & Medicine: An anti-aging medication that may work for women, too

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The return of New World screwworm threatens livestock, wildlife, pets, and people

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Science & Medicine: Eat your pain away

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Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to eliminate cervical cancer

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Science & Medicine: A Crisis of Loneliness

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Science & Medicine: Improving trauma care on the battlefield and at home

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Science & Medicine: Occupational therapy may be the best-kept secret in behavioral health

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Trump's 'Big Bill' healthcare cuts may threaten the nation's entire health infrastructure: CBO

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Science & Medicine: Be Well, Texas

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Science & Medicine: Controlling how magnesium gets into immune system cells could create more cancer fighters

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Science & Medicine: The Brain Bank

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Could Kennedy's vaccine advisory board purge lead to reduced vaccine choice?

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Science & Medicine: A fountain of youth for the immune system

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Science & Medicine: Omega 3 fatty acids to fight Alzheimer’s

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Science & Medicine: Tinnitus and PTSD

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Science & Medicine: Go to the dentist

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CDC alerts U.S. doctors and travelers to Mexico: Watch for dengue

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Science & Medicine: The Center for Brain Health could revolutionize how we think about dementia