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August 18, 2014
After a few minutes of twisting, twirling and unlocking limbs, the six students of Team Green credited good communication skills with helping them unwind from a human knot in record time. "It does help you get to know people," incoming Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences student Thomas Mock said of the exercise. "And it's more…
August 15, 2014
By Sarah Matches, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics It's become easy for us to forget the horrors of a disease such as polio, which as recently as the 1950s crippled about 35,000 Americans each year. Today, there is no naturally occurring polio anywhere in the United States. This public health victory, like so many others,…
August 14, 2014
On the day before Easter, Tom and Pam Kearney arrived in Fort Worth from their home in Michigan feeling anxious and uncertain. An injury to Tom's xiphoid process caused excruciating pain in his chest - and the Kearneys traveled to Fort Worth so Albert Yurvati, DO, a surgeon at UNT Health Science Center, could perform…
August 13, 2014
Angela Pokluda enjoyed her life as a wife and mother until she began suffering bouts of nausea and couldn't keep food down. "My nausea was so serious it would stop me in my tracks whenever it hit," said Pokluda, who shed weight and compared her ordeal to the effects of chemo treatments she received during…
August 8, 2014
DNA experts at UNT Health Science Center announced this week that they had identified the remains of a 14-year-old boy buried more than 70 years ago at a now-closed reform school in Florida.It is one of the oldest DNA associations ever made at UNTHSC and the first positive ID made from 55 sets of human…
August 7, 2014
Scientists at UNT Health Science Center used DNA analysis to help identify the remains of a 14-year-old boy buried more than 70 years ago at a reform school in Florida.It is the first DNA association made from 55 sets of human remains excavated from unmarked graves at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys…
August 6, 2014
By combining a simple blood test with a cognitive exam and demographics, researchers at UNT Health Science Center were able to accurately detect Alzheimer's disease, even in its very early stages. The research could lead to a rapid, accurate and cost-effective way to screen for Alzheimer's disease, said Dr. Sid O'Bryant, Interim Director of the…
August 4, 2014
From the window of his hotel in Beijing, Wayne English, DO, saw something in 1990 that would impact his life for decades to come. "Everywhere I looked, in parks, on corners and in vacant lots, there were people doing these weird movements that I thought were rather ridiculous," he said. "It didn't seem to matter…
August 1, 2014
Five years ago, the co-founders of biotech start-up ZS Pharma, were developing a drug out of a lab provided by UNT Health Science Center. "Although we believed it had all the makings of a successful project, until you prove it, you don't know if you really have something," said Alvaro Guillem, PhD, co-founder of ZS…
July 31, 2014
Jose Cruz, DO, MPH, is a newly minted physician who helps young people become doctors in spite of major challenges. Partly because of this work, he's among 74 students to receive the Excellence in Public Health Award from the United States Public Health Corps. Dr. Cruz is a 2014 graduate of the Texas College of…
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