Why does a new study on depression have people asking their doctors about their SSRI medications? Will sequencing the human genome soon be affordable for almost everyone? On Petrie Dish, join host and veteran reporter Bonnie Petrie for deep dives into a wide range of bioscience and medicine stories.
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Science & Medicine: Exercise affects men and women differently
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Physical exercise impacts every type of tissue in the body and affects males and females differently. Data gathered at UT Health San Antonio. It’s part of a nationwide, multi-site study on exercise and the human body.By Bonnie Petrie
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UT Health San Antonio Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine Dr. Monica Verduzco-Guttierrez, has helped craft a universal definition for long COVID, a cluster of sometimes disabling symptoms that occur after someone has recovered from COVID-19.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Help for women's pelvic health disorders
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Petrie Dish: What you need to know about COVID FLiRT variants
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New COVID variants have emerged as dominant strains as summer begins. They're called FLiRT variants because of their unique mutations.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Bridging the rural health divide
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The Rural Cohort Study is bringing the lab right to the often isolated communities they want to research.By Bonnie Petrie
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Plants-2-Plate is a six-month program that helps people adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.By Bonnie Petrie
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Petrie Dish: Why you should be prepared but not scared of the bird flu
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How do we do that with a virus that can change as rapidly as the flu?By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Bringing health innovation to market
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For months, we’ve been sharing with you all the ways that scientific discoveries at UT Health San Antonio have and will change lives. Now the university has added a team member it hopes will increase that impact.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Cognitive deficits from concussions can linger
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People with concussions get checked out pretty thoroughly by their doctors, but for some, there are cognitive changes and deficits that doctors don’t pick up.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Hope for patients with the deadliest cancers
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'Most people think carcinomatosis is a death sentence, but there are different treatment modalities that I offer to patients. And that's something that is pretty unique to UT Health San Antonio,' said Dr. Mio Kitano, a surgical oncologist.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Caring for veteran caregivers
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Caregivers for members of the military and veterans experience depression at a higher rate than any other group in the nation and that can be lethal.By Bonnie Petrie
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Be Well Texas is revolutionizing how substance use disorder is treated in Texas.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Improving trauma care on the battlefield and at home
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TRC4 is a collaborative at UT Health San Antonio in partnership with the Department of Defense and the entire UT System to address an urgent need for improved trauma care both on the battlefield and at home.By Bonnie Petrie
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Petrie Dish: Exploring what the 'NOVIDs' can teach us
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It’s been more than four years since COVID changed our lives, and scientists are still trying to figure out why this novel coronavirus makes some people so sick, and others never get it.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Improving knee replacement outcomes
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Blood flow restriction ahead of surgery could be key.By Bonnie Petrie
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For the last five years, first responders all over the world have been watching San Antonio.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: APOBECs and the fight against cancer
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One of the handiest tools in our immune system is an enzyme called apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide — better known as APOBECs.By Bonnie Petrie
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UT Health San Antonio oncologist Josephine Taverna envisions a revolution in lung cancer treatment.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Fighting Alzheimer's at the eye doctor
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Imagine going to the eye doctor and getting a cheap, non-invasive test that could help you fight dementia. A doctor at UT Health San Antonio is working on it.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Tooth pain with a purpose
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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What we can learn from Congressman Joaquin Castro's cancer treatment
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The journey began with the story of the Spanish boar that saved Castro’s life.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Strengthening your teeth
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Taking on America's number one killer
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More than six-million American adults are experiencing heart failure right now.By Bonnie Petrie
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Cancer care is about to experience a silver tsunami.By Bonnie Petrie
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If you’re experiencing chronic pain, adjusting your diet might help.By Bonnie Petrie
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Loneliness and social isolation can make you as sick as obesity or 15 cigarettes a day.By Bonnie Petrie
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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When people think about things they can do to stay healthy, they don’t think about their teeth nearly enough.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: When you clamp the cord matters
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Communicating with Aphasia
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: The Avanzando Caminos Hispanic cancer survivor study
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“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.'”…
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Science & Medicine: Swallowing ‘workout’ for people with early Parkinson’s
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Do you ever think about all that’s involved in just swallowing a bit of breakfast taco or a sip of coffee?By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Spinal cord injury and walking again
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Should you take the plunge? Diving into the science behind cold exposure therapy
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What does the science say about ice baths and cold plunges? TPR's Bioscience and Medicine reporter Bonnie Petrie 'dives in'By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Thriving with congenital heart disease
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Early screening to prevent congenital heart disease
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Alzheimer's and the inflammatory trigger
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A UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher has discovered something really interesting about Alzheimer’s disease.By Bonnie Petrie
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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CDC wants to fortify corn masa flour with folic acid to prevent birth defects
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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At the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the brain bank is accepting deposits.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Counter Long COVID with pacing
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Omega 3 fatty acids to fight Alzheimer’s
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Using AI for brain health diagnoses
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Science & Medicine: Long COVID and the road to recovery
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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'The bugs are winning' — Researchers are fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Inside America’s last remaining free standing tuberculosis hospital
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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.By Bonnie Petrie
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Summer ends in the shadow of new COVID-19 threat
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COVID cases have been increasing for weeks nationwide, but a COVID expert says not to call it a surge just yet.By Bonnie Petrie
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Thousands of Afghans suffer from PTSD. Advocates are trying to find culturally competent ways to help
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'We've seen women who have not gone outside the door in six months,' said Margaret Constantino, executive director of the Center for Refugee Services in San Antonio. 'How does anybody stay healthy in that kind of environment?'By Bonnie Petrie
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Family members of a woman who changed modern medicine — without her knowledge and certainly without her permission — spoke at a gathering of scientists in San Antonio recently about ethics and equity in science and medicine.By Bonnie Petrie
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