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  • Our People
| May 15, 2019

Graduating TCOM student became voice for mental health

By Jan Jarvis Halfway through his first year in medical school, Parker Murray fell apart. Homesick, depressed and overwhelmed, the Utah native collapsed on his bed one weekend. “I cried like two days straight,” he said. “I felt like I...

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  • Community
| May 15, 2019

Cycling to work is healthier — but is it also faster?

By Alex Branch   Would a bicycle get you to work faster? Maybe you’ve pondered that question in your car during a slow, congested morning commute. Two UNT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy professors will answer the question —...

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  • Community
| May 14, 2019

‘Missing in North Texas’ event helps families find closure

By Alex Branch  Gene and Helga Lukacsy will never forget the worry and sleepless nights after their son went missing in October 2016.   Anthony Lukacsy, 46, faced his share of life struggles and was homeless. But he always periodically checked...

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  • Research
| May 13, 2019

Entrepreneurs offer advice on benefits of biotech start-ups

By Jan Jarvis Investing in Biotech: What If You Could Change the Future? May 16 8 a.m.to 5 p.m. MET building on the UNTHSC campus Investing in a...

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  • Education
| May 9, 2019

Innovative IPE training draws faculty to UNTHSC

By Alex Branch Preparing health professions students to work in high-performing teams is key to UNT Health Science Center’s vision of producing the health care providers of the future. But to succeed, those students’ teachers need equally extraordinary team skills....

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  • Education
| May 9, 2019

Neurobiology symposium will feature predoctoral fellows’ work

By Jan Jarvis As a predoctoral fellow in 2012, Nicole Phillips presented her research on genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease at the Neurobiology of Aging Trainee Symposium. Seven years later, Dr. Phillips will watch the predoctoral fellow she is...

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  • Our People
| May 7, 2019

UNTHSC alum and field veteran to direct MPH Epidemiology program

By Sally Crocker The best way to learn about public health is to live it. As a UNT Health Science Center student working on her master’s and doctoral degrees, Diana Treviño Cervantes, DrPH, MPH, was already actively pursuing a career where...

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  • Education
| May 3, 2019

UNTHSC pain research registry to expand statewide

By Alex Branch  . An innovative pain research registry at UNT Health Science Center will expand to other major Texas cities, a big step for the project that could help change the way chronic pain is treated The PRECISION Pain...

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  • Community
| May 2, 2019

U.S. opioid crisis sparks campus, community conversations

By Sally Crocker  Every day, more than 130 Americans die and more than 1,000 people are treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments for misuse of opioids like heroin, fentanyl, Oxycontin and other prescription pain relievers.      “Arguably, the opioid epidemic is...

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  • Research
| May 1, 2019

Yorio honored for contributions to eye research

By Jan Jarvis  As a young graduate student in the 1970s, Thomas Yorio attended his first Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.  “There were about 400 abstracts presented then,” he said. Now it is more like 6,000.  Over...