University Health chief medical officer offers answers to most-asked COVID-19 questions amid omicron surge
University Healthโs Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Bryan Alsip, answered some of the most-asked questions about COVID-19 and the new omicron variant, which now accounts for a majority of new cases.
About 90 people receiving antibody therapy for COVID-19 per day at Freeman Coliseum
SAN ANTONIO โ COVID-19 patients in San Antonio are being treated daily at the Freeman Coliseum with antibody therapy. โThereโs a small allocation that goes out to the hospitals in the San Antonio area. They all send them to us here at University Health, and we actually mix those products into a solution for IV administration, and those are done at the Freeman Coliseum,โ Mandell said. Nonprofit BCFS Health and Human Servicesโ emergency management division is running the operation at the Freeman Coliseum. Vaccines, therapeutics should still be effective against new coronavirus strand, San Antonio doctor says
TearCare wearable device defeats dry eye
CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) โ Burning, tearing, blurry vision -- about 16 million people in the U.S. suffer from dry eye disease. If left untreated, dry eye can cause irreversible damage, but a new wearable device is giving dry eye sufferers immediate relief. But he couldnโt find relief for his dry eye disease and it could sometimes make his work environment uncomfortable. Now a new device is helping dry eye suffers find relief when eye drops donโt work. Itโs called TearCare and itโs a wearable thermal device that goes over the eye lids.