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  • Research
| December 3, 2019

Ending the HIV epidemic using community pharmacists

By Jan Jarvis Shelia Neal keeps a list of her prescriptions on her cell phone and puts her medications in a pill organizer. “If I miss a dose, I might not die today, but I’m not going to feel good,”...

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  • Community
| December 3, 2019

An Osteopathic physician, a president, an OMT expert and a mom

By Steven Bartolotta It began on a Tuesday with a flight from DFW to Columbus, Ohio. A 90-minute drive to Athens, Ohio, and a day spent discussing research at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, then back to...

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  • Community
| November 26, 2019

Pharmacy students bring cultures together with diversity fair

By Diane Smith Samantha Watson and Judith Ihezie are usually studying to become pharmacists, but a recent class assignment allowed them to tap their ambassador skills. During a diversity fair hosted by students from the UNT System College of Pharmacy,...

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  • Community
| November 25, 2019

‘We are all in this together’

By Sally Crocker It’s early morning when a fleet of vans rolls out from Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH), ready to immunize children and keep them safe from the dangerous, sometimes deadly effects of infectious diseases like measles, polio, chickenpox...

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  • Research
| November 22, 2019

Balkans group visits UNTCHI

By Jan Jarvis Someone in the group wanted to know why everyone behind the glass in the forensics lab was wearing earmuffs. “When you’re pulverizing bones into a powder it creates a loud noise,” said Linda LaRose, Research Assistant Director,...

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  • Community
| November 20, 2019

Fort Worth must recapture its entrepreneurial spirit

By Alex Branch Fort Worth must transform itself into a city with an entrepreneurial mindset — how it thinks and operates — to create jobs, increase wealth and solve complex problems in what is now the nation’s 13th-largest city, UNTHSC...

Rural Fc
  • Education
| November 20, 2019

‘Have a heart’ for rural Texas, practice medicine in small, underserved communities

By Diane Smith Rural Texas, with its 3 million-plus people and stretches of wide open space, is the setting for a healthcare crisis characterized by hospital closures, OB deserts and a lack of doctors.  It’s a healthcare plight receiving in-depth...

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  • Education
| November 15, 2019

Not just counting pills

By Diane Smith Virginia Lee doesn’t want to get the flu. The 79-year-old Benbrook resident recently arrived at her neighborhood pharmacy looking for a flu shot. “I’m over 65,” Lee said. “I’m also almost 80. It’s prevention.” Lee was among...

Precep Fc
  • Education
| November 12, 2019

‘Circle of life’ reunites PA student with her delivery doctor

By Diane Smith  Lindsey Graff was delivered into the world 24 years ago after her mother experienced a high-risk pregnancy that included strict bedrest.  Marco Uribe, MD, an obstetrician in Austin, made sure Lindsey Graff’s birth was successful.  “He was...

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  • Our People
| November 12, 2019

UNTHSC celebrates veteran students for ‘a life of service’

By Diane Smith Marine sniper and doctor don’t appear to be similar careers, but former U.S. Marine Sgt. Jonathan Sweeny sees two jobs that both serve to protect. A sniper’s work includes keeping watch from distant, concealed positions over both...