Petrie Dish

2:10

Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/10/04

Kirsten Eom studies everything that goes into getting a cancer survivor from their front door to a doctor's office: insurance, transportation, follow-up care, and more. The UT Health San Antonio researcher has found that a surprising number of survivors stop seeing doctors once initial treatment ends. Now she's working to build a statewide registry to track the barriers keeping them away.

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16:02

Petrie Dish: Lone star ticks will be out in force...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/10/03

Cooler fall temperatures mean an increase in daytime lone star tick activity in areas where sweltering summer temperatures kept them at bay. This type of tick is more aggressive than most other ticks, and it presents a unique threat to the people they bite. The sugar in their saliva can cause humans to develop a dangerous allergy to red meat.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Training a new front line for...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/27

Only about 30% of Texans who need mental health support are getting it, and the shortage of providers is projected to worsen dramatically over the next decade. A UT Health San Antonio psychologist has developed a program that teaches counseling skills to non-specialists like community health workers, faith-based practitioners, and even doulas.

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19:52

Petrie Dish: 'Checking out' connection

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/22

A visit to a neighborhood library reveals what a loneliness researcher calls a "third place" in action: ESL classes, new parents bringing their toddlers to storytime, remote workers on their laptops, and neighbors who show up just to be around other people. It's one solution to the crisis explored in our two-part series on loneliness that you can 'check out' with nothing more than a library card.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Studying the 'form and function'...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/20

A San Antonio scientist thinks of the protein that drives most prostate cancers as a machine, and pioneers a method to visualize it for the first time. This could lead to much better treatments and, someday, prevention.

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24:06

Petrie Dish: The lonely body and the social cure

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/15

In the second part of Petrie Dish’s exploration of loneliness, host Bonnie Petrie looks at what it takes to fight isolation, from teen gathering spaces to libraries and “chatty cafes,” and how communities can be designed to bring people together.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: AI tool aims to cut deadly delays...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/13

In rural Texas, severely injured patients often wait more than two hours to reach specialized trauma care. A UT Health San Antonio trauma surgeon is co-leading an effort to change that with an AI tool designed to help emergency doctors make faster transfer decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Increasing vaccine rates to...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/06

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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16:28

Summer COVID wave climbing as flu season looms

Petrie Dish ·

2026/09/01

The annual summer COVID wave hasn't peaked yet, and flu season is on the way, but this year brings new options to fight back. From a prophylactic pill you can take after exposure to COVID to a faster-made mRNA flu shot, Dr. Jason Bowling of UT Health San Antonio breaks down the new options.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: The circadian clock that controls...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/30

Every organ in your body keeps its own internal clock, and UT Health San Antonio researcher Kevin Koronowski is studying how that clock controls fat metabolism. His lab is investigating a protein pair that decides when the body burns fat and when it stores it, work that could eventually improve treatments for metabolic disease.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Communicating with Aphasia

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/23

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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2:10

Science & Medicine: San Antonio's fungus lab is on...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/16

When doctors can't identify a fungal infection, they often turn to UT Health San Antonio's Fungus Testing Laboratory, which has discovered more than 60 new species since 2013. The lab is now racing to fight drug-resistant fungi while helping bring new antifungal treatments to market.

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11:12

San Antonio study finds that even light exercise can...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/13

A new UT Health San Antonio study finds that any amount of physical activity can slow cognitive decline in older adults, with Mexican Americans showing the greatest benefit. Researchers say the findings highlight a need for community investment in accessible spaces for movement and social connection.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Swallowing ‘workout’ for people...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/09

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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2:10

Science & Medicine: Tracking What Happens to Cancer...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/08/02

Kirsten Eom studies everything that goes into getting a cancer survivor from their front door to a doctor's office: insurance, transportation, follow-up care, and more. The UT Health San Antonio researcher has found that a surprising number of survivors stop seeing doctors once initial treatment ends. Now she's working to build a statewide registry to track the barriers keeping them away.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Spinal cord injury and walking again

Petrie Dish ·

2026/07/26

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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21:56

The lonely body

Petrie Dish ·

2026/07/24

Loneliness doesn't just feel bad. It appears to raise the risk of heart disease, dementia, and early death. In part one of a two-part Petrie Dish series on the loneliness crisis, Bonnie Petrie talks to a researcher separating marmoset monkeys from their mates to study the body's stress response, and a psychiatrist mapping what isolation does to the human brain.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Small daily choices can have a...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/07/19

A UT San Antonio researcher warns that dementia cases could triple by 2050 and that no health system on earth is ready for it. But Dr. Claudia Suemoto says the outlook isn't hopeless: everyday choices around exercise, diet, and community can meaningfully lower your risk, especially if you start by around age 35.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Pursuing precision medicine for...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/07/12

A cutting-edge technology and an exciting recent hire hint at exciting developments in the future of precision medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

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2:10

Science & Medicine: Training health care workers to...

Petrie Dish ·

2026/07/05

In the nearly half of Texas counties considered maternity care deserts, few health care workers are trained to handle a pregnancy emergency like maternal cardiac arrest. A simulation-based training program from an expert at UT San Antonio's Kate Marmion School of Public Health aims to change that, and reduce preventable deaths in the process.

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