Bonnie Petrie

1 week ago | tpr.org | Bonnie Petrie

In 2016, a researcher returned to the US from a trip to Egypt, sick with an antibiotic-resistant infection. He was dying. That's when his wife, an epidemiologist, suggested a Hail Mary. Why not try bacteriophages? Phages are viruses that eat bacteria, and if you mix phages that eat a specific bacteria into a "cocktail," they might fight the infection when antibiotics no longer will.

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Bonnie Petrie

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. April is Autism Awareness Month, also known as Autism Acceptance Month, and in 2025, people living with the neurodevelopmental spectrum disorder and their advocates found themselves unusually busy. That's because the US Department of Health and Human Services under Robert Kennedy, Jr., focused on autism in April, promising to find a cause for an increase in diagnoses by September.

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Bonnie Petrie

This segment originally aired on April 21, 2024. Gustavo Almeida, PhD. is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at UT Health San Antonio. "I'm originally from Brazil. I started my career working with athletes —soccer players, UFC, MMA fighters. It was an amazing job, but I felt that I was just doing too little," he said.

3 weeks ago | tpr.org | Bonnie Petrie

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. When you imagine a person who might have an eating disorder, what do they look like? Lisa Kilpela, PhD, co-director of the Center for Research to Advance Community Health at UT Health San Antonio, says there’s a stereotype. It’s called the Golden Girl myth. “It's a thin, young, white woman or girl who is fairly affluent,” Kilpela said.

1 month ago | tpr.org | Bonnie Petrie

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. The Centers for Disease Control recently buried a warning about the potential for more measles outbreaks and the need for people to get vaccinated, according to a new report from ProPublica. Public Health experts wonder if this evidence that the federal agency is falling in line under its new leadership. Robert F. Kennedy jr.