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Petrie Dish

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: Strengthening your teeth

Petrie Dish ·

2024/03/10

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.

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Science & Medicine: Taking on America's number one...

Petrie Dish ·

2024/03/03

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

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Science & Medicine: Cancer's silver tsunami

Petrie Dish ·

2024/02/25

Cancer care is about to experience a silver tsunami.

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Science & Medicine: Eat your pain away

Petrie Dish ·

2024/02/18

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

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Science & Medicine: A Crisis of Loneliness

Petrie Dish ·

2024/02/11

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

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The winter wave of 2024

Petrie Dish ·

2024/02/06

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.

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Science & Medicine: Go to the dentist

Petrie Dish ·

2024/02/04

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

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Science & Medicine: When you clamp the cord matters

Petrie Dish ·

2024/01/28

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.

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Science & Medicine: Communicating with Aphasia

Petrie Dish ·

2024/01/21

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.

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Science & Medicine: The Avanzando Caminos Hispanic...

Petrie Dish ·

2024/01/14

“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...

Petrie Dish ·

2024/01/07

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

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Science & Medicine: Spinal cord injury and walking again

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/31

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.

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Should you take the plunge? Diving into the science...

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/29

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

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Science & Medicine: Thriving with congenital heart...

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/24

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.

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Science & Medicine: Early screening to prevent...

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/17

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.

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Science & Medicine: Alzheimer's and the inflammatory...

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/10

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

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Science & Medicine: The next Ozempic?

Petrie Dish ·

2023/12/03

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

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CDC wants to fortify corn masa flour with folic acid...

Petrie Dish ·

2023/11/25

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.

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Science & Medicine: The Brain Bank

Petrie Dish ·

2023/11/19

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

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Science & Medicine: Counter Long COVID with pacing

Petrie Dish ·

2023/11/12

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.

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