Students succeed in JAMP program at UNT Health Science Center

UNT Health Science Center recently matched seven students from various universities in Texas participating in the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) to be part of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine's Class of 2015. Now, more than 20 JAMP students have been accepted to TCOM, with the first three graduating in 2010. Created in 2000 by…

UNT Health opens new office at Alliance

  UNT Health's new women's health and primary care physician practice office in far north Fort Worth will open in early January. Christopher Stevens, MD, board-certified OB/Gyn, certified nurse midwives and a primary care specialist, will begin seeing patients at UNT Health at Alliance on Jan. 6. The new office is located at 12650 North…

McNair scholar’s research on magnetic cancer treatment recognized

Thinh Nguyen, a junior physics major at Texas Christian University and UNT Health Science Center McNair Scholar, recently earned one of the first-place awards in his category of presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Charlotte, N.C. His research explores a new delivery method of an anti-cancer drug, curcumin, to cancer…

Center for Human Identification featured on Canadian television network

Canadian Television's W5 news segment recently investigated the need for a national DNA database in Canada. Sue Sgambati, CTV's crime specialist, interviewed the Health Science Center's Bruce Budowle, professor of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, about the missing persons "mass disaster." At any one time there are 7,000 people in Canada missing and approximately 600 unidentified…

KDAF Channel 33 features Prostitute Diversion Initiative

Dr. Arthur Eisenberg appeared on the 9 p.m. broadcast of KDAF Channel 33 news on Friday, Nov. 19, as part of the television report on the Dallas Police Department's Prostitute Diversion Initiative (PDI) in South Dallas.As part of the PDI, the Dallas Police Department and local social service agencies target a truck stop each month, giving…

Health Science Center closed for Thanksgiving

The UNT Health Science Center will be closed for Thanksgiving break Nov. 25-28. Administrative offices will re-open at 8 a.m., Monday, Nov. 29. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will also be closed Nov. 25-28 in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will resume on Monday, Nov. 29. The Lewis Library will close…

UNTHSC promotes AlzheimerA€AsAas awareness, research

November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. Approximately 340,000 people in Texas have Alzheimer's disease, and more than 850,000 caregivers care for them. Texas will have the nation's second largest population of senior citizens, 5.5 million, by 2025. By 2050, it is estimated that Texas will remain one of the…

UNT Health offers certified nurse-midwife services at Eagle Ranch

The certified nurse-midwives of UNT Health will begin accepting patients at the Eagle Ranch Family Medicine clinic in mid-November 2010. Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM) are licensed healthcare practitioners providing primary healthcare to women of childbearing age and are educated in the two disciplines of nursing and midwifery. They are certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board.…

Check out the latest issue of North Texas Health & Science magazine

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…

UNT Health Science Center launches new logo and colors

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…