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July 22, 2009 • Archive
When Eri Yoshimura begins to play, beautiful music fills the air. Her eyes close, and her body sways in time to the prelude. Her small hands glide over the keyboard gracefully, fluidly, as if they were tiny ballerinas on a miniature stage.When she's not performing, though, this University of North Texas (UNT) piano performance doctoral…
July 20, 2009 • Archive
As usual, Ben Franklin was right when he said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In those 10 small words, he encapsulated everything we need to know about better health. But sadly, as a nation, we've failed to listen. And now this advice may lie at the heart of health reform.Our…
July 10, 2009 • Archive
George Rust, M.D., will discuss real-world research to achieve optimal and equitable health outcomes at the next University of North Texas Health Science Center Distinguished Speaker Series event. Rust is the director of the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. Rust has spent the past 17 years teaching, researching…
July 10, 2009 • Archive
New students at the University of North Texas Health Science Center will put on their white coats for the first time at the annual White Coat Ceremony at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 25, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, 3401 West Lancaster.At the ceremony, 185 incoming Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) students and 56…
July 8, 2009 • Archive
The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners announced this week that The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) Class of 2010 scored the best in the nation on the Level 1 Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX). This is the fourth consecutive year that TCOM has been the top performer in the nation on this…
July 3, 2009 • Archive
Dr. Paul Bowman, chairman and professor of Pediatrics, is leading a collaboration between Cook Children's Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on a pioneering new acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment. For the first time, St. Jude allowed children to participate in the protocol study without being referred to the home base of St. Jude…
July 3, 2009 • Archive
In groundbreaking research, scientists at the UNTHSC Worth have determined that rapid, estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain injury in animals. These finding are now being tested on human trauma patients in North Texas.James Simpkins, Ph.D., UNT Health Science Center chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Jane Wigginton, M.D., Department…
June 16, 2009 • Archive
Female caregivers of African American girls are reluctant to have their children vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new study by the Center for Community Health (CCH) at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas.The HPV Vaccine Acceptability Study discovered a few major themes from its focus groups:Most participants lacked…
June 15, 2009 • Archive
Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The success or failure of any government ... must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing can be more important to a state than its public health: The state's paramount concern should be the health of its people." Since FDR's time, overall health and life expectancy have improved greatly…
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