• Flag

  • Category

WestNile
  • Community
| June 4, 2014

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...

Mathew Stephen Web
  • Education
| June 2, 2014

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...

Health Disparities keynote
  • Education
| May 30, 2014

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...

Blood Donation web
  • Community
| May 30, 2014

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...

HSC News placeholder graphic
  • Research
| May 29, 2014

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...

Laszlo Prokai
  • Research
| May 29, 2014

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...

SPH India Recruiting web
  • Education
| May 28, 2014

School of Public Health takes global view: India is A€AhAthot

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...

HSC News placeholder graphic
  • Research
| May 27, 2014

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...

Gerald Korty
  • Education
| May 27, 2014

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...

HSC News placeholder graphic
  • Community
| May 26, 2014

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...