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November 4, 2010 • Archive
The latest edition of North Texas Health & Science magazine is now online. The issue features research on whether healthy habits can trump genetics, as well as developments in our aging and Alzheimer's and DNA identification programs - and our 40th anniversary. This issue is the first to bear our new logo and the first…
October 25, 2010 • Archive
As reported several months ago, the UNT System Board of Regents approved a new graphic identity for all system entities to create a unified look among the campuses. New graphics for each will include the UNT acronym, the same type font and the same shade of green. However, to maintain campus individuality, the logos aren't…
October 25, 2010 • Archive
It began four decades ago on an empty hospital floor and then a renovated bowling alley. Today - thousands of graduates and patients later - the mission of teaching, discovery, caring and serving continues. This year, the University of North Texas Health Science Center celebrates 40 years of innovation and leadership in the health sciences.…
October 20, 2010 • Archive
Mark DeHaven, PhD, Health Institutes of Texas professor for the Health Science Center and director of research for the Primary Care Research Institute, is conducting the first large-scale faith- and community-based participatory research trial in the country to determine whether or not people can reduce risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, even if genetically…
October 15, 2010 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center's FOR HER women's health institute will host two educational seminars during October. A lunch-and-learn session, sponsored by The Lalor Foundation, will be held Tuesday, Oct. 19, in the Health Science Center's Medical Education and Training Building, to provide information about emergency contraception. Ralph Anderson, MD, chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology,…
October 14, 2010 • Archive
UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health professors Fernando Wilson, PhD, and Jim Stimpson, PhD, have recently released a report in the American Journal of Public Health showing that texting while driving resulted in an estimated 16,000 fatalities in the U.S. from 2001 to 2007. The report indicates that a growing percentage of distracted…
October 11, 2010 • Archive
Gil Scarnati, DO ('90), has earned the first Dean's Award for Humanitarian Service presented by the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine to recognize TCOM alumni who distinguish themselves through outstanding personal and professional achievements and humanitarian service.As a practicing primary care physician, Scarnati treated HIV/AIDS patients in Dallas and also conducted several HIV-related research projects…
October 8, 2010 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center will host its To Your Health gala Saturday, Oct. 23 at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth. This year's gala, "White Coat. Black Tie.," celebrates 40 years of innovation and leadership in the health sciences. The gala helps support scholarships for the Health Science Center's founding school, the Texas…
October 5, 2010 • Archive
Students in the UNT Health Science Center's Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program will recognize National PA Week, Oct. 6-12, with several events over the next couple of weeks. Student PAs will meet with undergraduate students who are interested in the PA profession and the Health Science Center's program at the UNT campus in Denton on…
October 5, 2010 • Archive
UNT Health's Physical Therapy (PT) clinical program began seeing patients this week in suite 165 of the Patient Care Center (PCC). The clinical services are in addition to the new Physical Therapy doctorate degree at the UNT Health Science Center. The PT faculty practice is open to patients for rehabilitative care following injury and trauma,…
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