New air monitoring project aims to measure what Southside residents are breathing
Residents have for decades worried about how nearby industries affect the air they breathe. The Health Collaborative is getting the data.
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Biotech firm to build 130,000-square-foot research hub in San Antonio to fight New World screwworm
A biotech firm has chosen San Antonio as the base of its operations against New World screwworm and other pests threatening U.S. agriculture.
Inside San Antonio’s gut health boom where probiotics, kefir and kombucha sales thrive
From kefir bars to a lupus breakthrough, San Antonio is having a gut health moment. Scientists explain what’s evidence-based and what’s not.
Bexar County budget office recommends cutting public health department by more than half
Bexar County’s budget staff recommended cutting the public health department by more than half as federal funding dries up.
University Health approves purchase of additional medical building on Babcock
University Hospital plans on purchasing yet another office building on its Babcock Hospital campus for additional clinic space.
Mental health issues, chronic disease increasing in San Antonio homeless population, data suggests
Mental and physical health issues are present in a greater share of Bexar County’s homeless population compared to three years ago.
San Antonio woman wins first place at international Braille competition
EmmaGrace Olech won first place in the varsity division of the 2026 Braille Challenge in LA. Her next challenge: college.
Pandemic funding built Bexar County’s public health department. Now it’s disappearing.
Just four years in, Bexar County’s public health department faces an uncertain future as the pandemic-era funding it relied on dries up.
His dementia went undiagnosed for over a decade. A new study explains why that’s so common.
A rare form of dementia that can show up as early as age 40 is diagnosed later in Hispanic patients in South Texas, a UT Health study found.
A San Antonio woman adopted after years of infertility. Then she found out she was 8 months pregnant.
Jeanette Garza and her husband struggled with infertility for years. Shortly after adopting, doctors told Garza she was eight months pregnant.