Wash up! It’s handwashing week

It is that time of year again. It seems everyone around you is sick, sneezing or coughing. What is a great way to avoid getting sick yourself? It is no coincidence that December 2-8 is National Hand Washing Week. Why is hand washing so important? Eighty percent of all infectious diseases are transmitted by touch.…

UNT Health Sports Medicine: Keeping athletes in the game

UNT Health's Daniel Clearfield, DO ('07), and Alan Stockard, DO ('76), volunteer as team physicians to help ensure student athletes stay in the game ... safely. A role they agree is growing even more important not only for athletes, but for everyone who risks injury. "We know exercise improves health and helps prevent certain disease,"…

UNTHSC amps up its sustainability

The UNT Health Science Center campus is merry and bright with 17,700 tiny white LED lights adorning 21 trees. The campus' holiday lights, decking the trees along Camp Bowie Boulevard and Montgomery Street, are new this year, said Electrical Foreman Fred McHugh. "We want UNTHSC to be a beacon of light for our community," he…

Chopper lands on campus to demonstrate emergency transport

Future health care providers got an up-close look Wednesday at how collaboration saves lives in emergencies. A medevac crew landed on the UNT Health Science Center campus to demonstrate their helicopter's set-up and talk with students about teamwork. "The amount of equipment is amazing," said TCOM second-year student Kimberly Lacson. "It's great to see how…

UNTHSC gives thanks

We have so much to be thankful for at UNTHSC. View our online photo album to see  what some of our employees and students said they were thankful for this holiday season. 

UNTHSCA€AsADs DNA identification work resolves search for missing loved ones

When someone you love is missing, the holidays lose their shine, and hearts ache from not knowing their fate.Through funding provided by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ),  the UNT Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) and NamUs (the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System) at the UNT Health Science Center continue to help law enforcement…

Join the Jingle Bell Run/Walk

Jingle all the way with the UNT Health Bone & Joint Institute, a sponsor of the year's Jingle Bell Run on Dec. 1, which benefits the Arthritis Foundation. Children and adults can participate in a half-mile or a 5K race, a costume contest and more. Festivities begin at 2 p.m. at Chesapeake Energy Plaza, 100…

School of Public Health debuts accelerated online courses

You can be anywhere in the world and never miss class. UNTHSC's School of Public Health is the first in Texas to offer an accelerated online Master of Public Health Professional Option. You can complete a course in just eight weeks instead of the usual 16. Matt Nolan Adrignola, EdD, MBA, SPH Associate Dean of…

Book drive helps reading program at UNTHSC pediatrics department

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…

UNTHSC leader speaks out on impact of reform on womenA€AsAhs health care

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…