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Fort Worth, UNTHSC team up on West Nile virus prevention
Joon-Hak Lee, PhD, and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price The City of Fort Worth and UNT Health Science Center have renewed their mosquito-surveillance partnership, part of a unique effort blending hard science with community outreach to prevent the spread...
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Interactive map: TCOM Class of 2014 residency matches
With graduation over, members of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2014 are scattering nationwide to start their careers in residency and internship programs in a variety of specialties. Once again, the largest percentage of our medical school...
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Genome expert says futuristic cancer treatments are a reality now
Several years ago, when a Washington University scientist was facing certain death from leukemia, his colleagues set out to find the gene that was driving his cancer. By sequencing the genes of his cancer and those of healthy cells, they...
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Young blood donors miss out on important health information
Donating blood is a great way to help others, but few young donors realize it is also an opportunity to protect their own health. Only 11 percent of donors ages 16 to 19 go online to check their blood values...
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Discovery could lead to better treatments for glaucoma
For decades scientists have tried to understand how glaucoma develops in the eye. Now a team of UNT Health Science Center researchers have identified a signaling pathway that appears to play a major part in the development of the incurable...
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Protein may provide effective way to study nitroxidative stress
Laszlo Prokai, PhD, DSc Katalin Prokai-Tatrai, PhD A new protocol that helps scientists identify a protein that is changed by nitroxidated stress in the body has been developed by UNT Health Science Center researchers. Previously there was no effective...
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School of Public Health takes global view: India is AAhAthot
UNT Health Science Center is reaching out worldwide in its student recruiting efforts. Matt Nolan Adrignola, EdD, MBA, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, recently travelled to India to encourage students to consider a move to Fort Worth...
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Eliminating diabetic foot ulcers, one step at a time
Every footstep is a risk for diabetics like Rudolph Blancarte. Because diabetes can cause people to lose sensation in their feet, they often don't feel pain from a developing wound. Something as innocuous as a pebble in their shoe can...
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TCOM students serve Texas on statewide boards
Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS Christopher D. Vera Gov. Rick Perry has appointed two students in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine to the governing boards of statewide institutions. Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS, a TCOM second-year student, will serve as the...
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Farmers market returns May 29
The farmers market returns to the Health Science Center campus on Thursday, May 29. A half-dozen vendors will set up shop in a small parking lot near the Camp Bowie Boulevard and Clifton Street intersection (Lot 15 on the campus...
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