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November 16, 2012 • Archive
UNTHSC student representatives for the Texas Academy of Physician Assistants (TAPA) and their classmates hosted a book drive during Physician Assistants Week, held October 6-12, for a program called "Reach Out and Read" in the Department of Pediatrics. The state program encourages health care providers to give books to children who may not otherwise have…
November 16, 2012 • Archive
UNT Health Science Center Ob/Gyn Chairman Ralph Anderson, MD, says that the Affordable Health Care Act provides vitally important advances for the health of women and their families. Speaking at the 24th annual Pelham P. Staples, Jr., MD, Educational Symposium in Arlington, Texas, Dr. Anderson said that the new health care legislation makes preventive care…
November 15, 2012 • Archive
Collaboration will be in the air on Nov. 28 when a medevac helicopter lands on the Medical Education and Training building lawn at the UNT Health Science Center. Aboard will be a full crew - emergency medical technician, nurse and physician, ready to show UNTHSC students how they work. The event, PHI Air Medical Helicopter…
November 15, 2012 • Archive
Photo courtesy Jeapordy.com Second-year Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine student Jason Shore will appear on the long-running quiz show Jeopardy! this Wednesday, Nov. 28. You can watch Shore on Jeopardy! at 11 a.m. on CBS. If you are on campus, join employees and students at 11 a.m. in the Student Lounge (EAD-110) to watch the…
November 15, 2012 • Archive
Teen-age basketball star Kylie Ducat was frustrated that 12 doctors were unable to explain her chest pain and turned to UNT Health's Albert Yurvati, DO ('86). For a year Ducat experienced pain in her chest that radiated to her back, neck and shoulders. At times she couldn't breathe. Playing basketball was out of the question.…
November 12, 2012 • Archive
People who have stress, high blood pressure or aortic stenosis, in which the aortic valve cannot open fully, are more prone to hypertrophy, which is an abnormal thickening and enlargement of the heart muscle. This can eventually result in congestive heart failure and death. Joseph Yuan, PhD, assistant professor of Integrative Physiology, is working to…
November 12, 2012 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center will be closed for Thanksgiving break Nov. 22-25. Administrative offices will re-open at 8 a.m., Monday, Nov. 26. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will also be closed Nov. 22-25 in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will resume on Monday, Nov. 26. Click here for Lewis Library's…
November 12, 2012 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center celebrated the brand new UNT System College of Pharmacy (admitting students in the Fall of 2013) at its annual gala at the Worthington in Fort Worth on Nov.10. The new pharmacy school will be the first one in North Texas and the first pharmacy school in the state to be…
November 11, 2012 • Archive
Happy Veterans Day! Since 1996, 80 TCOM students have received military commissions upon graduation. Currently, at least 35 students are veterans, and more than 20 are in the military. Our faculty and staff include 68 veterans and the UNT Health Science Center was recently named a Military Friendly School. Thank you to our service men…
November 10, 2012 • Archive
Wellness, adolescent sexual health, diabetes in pregnancy, prematurity prevention -- these topics and more are all on deck starting Thursday, Nov. 15, at the three-day 24th annual Pelham P. Staples, Jr., MD, Educational Symposium, located at the Sheraton Arlington Hotel (near the ballpark). "We're delighted to have world-renowned experts addressing a host of topics about…
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