Seniors navigating health care tips
Editorial Note: At this stage of my life, My wife and I have found ourselves as the health navigator for my mother and my mother-in-law.…
Month: February 2022
Engaging the Arts to Build COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Art Banners in Atlanta, Georgia
Engaging the arts community is just one of many creative strategies being used by public health to promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence and increase up…
Moderna Launches First Ever HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial
Forty years after the virus was discovered, an HIV vaccine is finally in development. Moderna and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) are…
Study: Peer Modeling with Psychological Inoculation Can Promote COVID-19 Vaccinations
COVID-19 vaccination is often deterred by misinformation, from conspiracy theories to exaggerated side effects on social media. Vaccine misinformation…
Understanding Critical Race Theory
Discussing racial equity and anti-racism can result in some backlash because of the great divide in our country regarding if and how to examine struct…
The 1st Surgery for Alzheimer’s Disease in South Texas
A San Antonio woman in her 70s underwent South Texas’ first deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Alzheimer’s — one of the first 300 surgerie…
Heart Healthy Month 2022 with Jennifer Smiley of AHA
Dr. Klaisner is joined by Jennifer Smiley, Youth Market Director of the American Heart Association, to discuss heart healthy suggestions for our students and teachers!
#SaludTues Tweetchat 3/1─Two Years Later: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Latinos
For the past two years, COVID-19 has continued to ravage the United States. Data continue to show that Latinos and other people of color are dispropor…
Latinos Have Highest Rate of Physical Inactivity, Due to Structural Barriers
32.1% of Latinos are physically inactive outside of work, putting them in danger of health issues from obesity to cancer, according to a new report fr…
NASA Selects Developer for Rocket to Retrieve First Samples From Mars
The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.
