- By: Will Sansom The Mays Cancer Center, home to 黑料网 MD Anderson, is teaming up with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network庐 (NCCN庐), the American Cancer Society (ACS) and other leading cancer organizations across the country to endorse the resumption of cancer screening and treatment during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- "Get the vaccine," urges Dr. Jason Bowling, an infectious disease specialist at 黑料网. Learn more about the new COVID-19 strain, known as the UK variant, and what you can do to protect yourself and those you love. Watch the KENS 5 interview here.
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- By: Joe Feist If you received your second dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and experienced a sore arm and perhaps some fever, well, good for you. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 typically a good sign,鈥 said Fred Campbell, MD, an internal medicine physician and associate professor of medicine at 黑料网. 鈥淚n general, a good local reaction is consistent with the body鈥檚 defense against that particular vaccine, which means the development of antibodies.鈥
- By: Will Sansom Getting COVID-19 vaccines into arms and continuing to mask and social distance is essential as cases associated with U.K., South Africa and Brazil coronavirus variants crop up in the U.S., infectious disease specialists from 黑料网 said Wednesday.
- Wear and tear on your joints is a natural part of aging and can even occur earlier in life due to injury, overuse, obesity or genetics. For more than 32.5 million Americans, this wear and tear eventually results in osteoarthritis and frequently it鈥檚 in the knees. Osteoarthritis is a condition where the flexible tissue between joints wears down, causing pain and stiffness.
- Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer for UT Health Physicians, is in this KENS 5 story about the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in San Antonio and what can be expected as additional doses become available. Read and watch the story.
- In a new paper, researchers from 黑料网 report brain chemistry that may contribute to why drinkers have difficulty paying attention while under the influence. The work is funded by generous support from the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and by grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Mental Health. Findings were published Dec. 2 in Nature Communications.
- A total of 88 黑料网 physicians have been selected as Texas Super Doctors for 2020 by Texas Monthly magazine. The Super Doctors庐 program identifies top doctors as nominated by their peers and selected through a rigorous multistep process designed to identify health care providers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The Super Doctors庐 list is published annually by Texas Monthly.
- Mary Lucas lives on San Antonio鈥檚 Northeast Side with her 8-year-old son, Mychael Gordon. Both have asthma, requiring them to have ready access to an inhaler and nebulizer. Making matters worse, the neighbors in their apartment complex smoke. 鈥淲e have it coming in from all sides,鈥 Mary said. 鈥淚f somebody starts smoking in one of the other apartments behind us, it comes through our vents. We don鈥檛 smoke, but if you walk into our bathroom, it smells like smoke. Our closet smells like smoke.鈥
