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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: Immune resilience and the 15-...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/09/28

A UT San Antonio Health Science Center researcher has found that people with resilient immune systems can live 15 years longer than those who don't, but what is immune resilience? How do you know if your immune system is lagging? Can you get some of those years back?

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Science & Medicine: Sabotaging the molecular engines...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/09/21

A San Antonio researcher is working on a drug that could treat Ewing sarcoma and rhabdomyosarcoma without lifelong side effects. It would be the first new treatment option for these childhood cancers in 30 years.

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Science & Medicine: A San Antonio scientist's team...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/09/14

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, and an effective vaccine has been elusive. But a San Antonio malaria researcher and her team have discovered a vulnerability in the malaria parasite's method of avoiding the human immune system that may make all the difference.

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23:08

Texans will vote on billions of dementia research...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/09/11

Petrie Dish host Bonnie Petrie sits down with Public Health Watch reporter Raquel Torres to talk about her story on the Alzheimer's crisis in the Rio Grande Valley, as well as a $3 billion proposal to fund Alzheimer's research in Texas that won't go forward unless Texans say yes at the polls in November.

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Science & Medicine: Revolutionizing prostate cancer...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/09/07

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men and the five year survival rate is 97%.

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Science & Medicine: LAUNCHing kids into literacy

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/31

UT Health San Antonio Speech-Language Pathology program graduate students are helping local kids at risk for developing a language disorder through a program called LAUNCH. Angela Kennedy, SLP-D, CCC-SLP, is the director of clinical education and an assistant professor for the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

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Science & Medicine: An anti-aging medication that may...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/24

An anti-aging medication called rapamycin seems to work better in female mice than in males, and it's the only one studied as part of the National Institute of Aging's Interventions Testing Program to do so. Most of the medications singled out for their effectiveness in a recent review only work in male mice.

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30:07

The return of New World screwworm threatens...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/18

Once eradicated in the United States, a maggot that feeds on living, warm-blooded animals is inching back toward Texas. It may cross the Southern border before the end of the year. Petrie Dish host Bonnie Petrie talks with Sonja L. Swiger, Ph.D., from the Texas A&M University Department of Entomology and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension about the screwworm, the threat it poses to animals and humans, and what can be done to minimize the damage.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Eat your pain away

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/17

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

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Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/10

The UT Health San Antonio professor who is leading an effort to increase the number of South Texas teens who are vaccinated against the human papillomavirus hopes to see cervical cancer eliminated in the United States in her lifetime.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: A Crisis of Loneliness

Petrie Dish ·

2025/08/03

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

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Science & Medicine: Improving trauma care on the...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/07/20

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.

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Science & Medicine: Occupational therapy may be the...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/07/13

Occupational therapy can help people with mental illness resume meaningful activities in their lives and create strategies that will improve their overall health. A San Antonio OT has developed a program she hopes will help people with a mental illness and type 2 diabetes achieve better control over their disease.

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5:11

Trump's 'Big Bill' healthcare cuts may threaten the...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/07/07

The Medicaid cuts add up to nearly a trillion dollars over ten years, and 12 million people could lose access to health care. Medicare also faces deep reductions in spending, even though it's not slashed in this legislation. It insures the elderly, and it may lose half a trillion dollars to sequestration. KFF Health News DC correspondent Julie Rovner told Bonnie Petrie that no one will be unaffected.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Be Well, Texas

Petrie Dish ·

2025/07/06

Be Well Texas is revolutionizing how substance use disorder is treated in Texas.

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Science & Medicine: Controlling how magnesium gets...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/06/29

A UT Health San Antonio researcher confirms that how magnesium gets into immune system cells can determine whether they fight oral cancer or support tumor growth. The discovery offers hope for new ways to prevent and treat the disease.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: The Brain Bank

Petrie Dish ·

2025/06/22

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

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Could Kennedy's vaccine advisory board purge lead to...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/06/17

HHS Secretary Kennedy's decision to purge all 17 members of the CDC vaccine advisory board concerns public health experts. Some fear a new board will change vaccine recommendations, leading to reduced access for all and a surge in vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Science & Medicine: A fountain of youth for the...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/06/15

Human immunity wanes as we age, but what if it could be restored? A UT Health San Antonio researcher who studies the thymus has confirmed that a certain protein can restore its size and function in mice, leading to a larger and more diverse T cell population that more closely resembles the T cells of youth.

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Science & Medicine: Omega 3 fatty acids to fight...

Petrie Dish ·

2025/06/08

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.

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