/tags/medicine Medicine en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:51:46 GMT /health/2025-01-14/university-of-texas-austin-dell-medical-school-ai-artificial-intelligence The Center for Computational Medicine arrives as the university prepares to build a new academic medical center where the cutting-edge technologies could be used. Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:51:46 GMT /health/2025-01-14/university-of-texas-austin-dell-medical-school-ai-artificial-intelligence Olivia Aldridge /health/2022-11-29/travis-county-to-provide-austin-bars-with-narcan-to-prevent-overdose-deaths In the first six months of 2022 alone, there were 118 fentanyl-related overdoses in AG真人百家乐 County. That鈥檚 the same number the county saw in all of last year. Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:22:39 GMT /health/2022-11-29/travis-county-to-provide-austin-bars-with-narcan-to-prevent-overdose-deaths Haya Panjwani /politics/2021-05-26/texas-senate-approves-bill-to-expand-states-medical-marijuana-program House Bill 1535 would add more conditions to the Texas Compassionate Use Program, including all forms of cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder. The House's version of the bill originally called for the THC limit in cannabis oil to increase tenfold from 0.5% to 5%, but the Senate approved raising that limit to just 1%. Wed, 26 May 2021 12:56:23 GMT /politics/2021-05-26/texas-senate-approves-bill-to-expand-states-medical-marijuana-program Jerry Quijano /texas/2020-04-02/ask-a-doctor-the-risk-of-covid-19-for-pregnant-women-and-more-questions-answered From Texas Standard:In the second installment of Texas Standard's Ask a Doctor, UT Health San Antonio's Dr. Fred Campbell answers listeners' most pressing鈥� Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:24:15 GMT /texas/2020-04-02/ask-a-doctor-the-risk-of-covid-19-for-pregnant-women-and-more-questions-answered Michael Marks /texas/2020-03-26/your-medical-questions-about-covid-19-answered From Texas Standard:The coronavirus pandemic comes at a time when the access to information is greater than ever before. But that also brings greater risk鈥� Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:07:06 GMT /texas/2020-03-26/your-medical-questions-about-covid-19-answered Michael Marks /texas/2020-03-20/what-scientists-face-when-developing-a-covid-19-vaccine From Texas Standard:An effective COVID-19 vaccine could help stop or at least slow the spread of the new coronaviru, which the World Health Organization鈥� Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:02:29 GMT /texas/2020-03-20/what-scientists-face-when-developing-a-covid-19-vaccine Kristen Cabrera /texas/2019-10-29/how-fluffys-fleas-can-hop-onto-humans-and-spread-murine-typhus From Texas Standard:As Bill Jones and his wife Kathy Murray of Austin found out in 2008, getting sick with murine typhus can be scary business. When a鈥� Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:37:32 GMT /texas/2019-10-29/how-fluffys-fleas-can-hop-onto-humans-and-spread-murine-typhus Margaret Nicklas /texas/2018-11-19/new-book-celebrates-the-life-of-famed-trauma-surgeon-and-tv-personality-dr-red-duke From Texas Standard:If you lived in Texas in the 1980s and '90s, this name will likely ring a bell; if not, his voice probably will:"From the University鈥� Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:16:00 GMT /texas/2018-11-19/new-book-celebrates-the-life-of-famed-trauma-surgeon-and-tv-personality-dr-red-duke Brooke Vincent /texas/2018-09-24/recognizing-the-inner-lives-of-doctors-can-make-for-better-patient-care From Texas Standard:At pivotal moments in our lives 鈥� often during moments of crisis 鈥� many of us will interact with doctors. They may be delivering a鈥� Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:49:46 GMT /texas/2018-09-24/recognizing-the-inner-lives-of-doctors-can-make-for-better-patient-care Laura Rice /texas/2018-09-11/how-a-texas-physician-uses-magnets-to-make-surgery-less-invasive From Texas Standard:You鈥檝e heard of minimally invasive surgery 鈥� it鈥檚 often called laparoscopic surgery. Instead of making a large cut in a patient, and鈥� Wed, 12 Sep 2018 01:56:31 GMT /texas/2018-09-11/how-a-texas-physician-uses-magnets-to-make-surgery-less-invasive Laura Rice