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It has long been routine for individual medical professionals to go room-to-room on “rounds” to evaluate hospitalized patients. Read More

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which estrogen confers its beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, independent of the hormone’s act Read More

Head and neck cancer surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center performed the area’s first transoral robotic surgery (TORS), a recently approved minimally invasive no-scar procedure to remove tumors in the thr Read More

DALLAS – June 14, 2010 – Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first in North Texas to use the newest generation surgical robot, the dual-console DaVinci Surgical System, enabling them to perform minimally invasive surgeries Read More

A molecule implicated in Alzheimer’s disease interferes with brain cells by making them unable to “recycle” the surface receptors that respond to incoming signals, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Read More

DALLAS – June 8, 2010 – A quick, painless eye measurement shows promise as a way to diagnose multiple sclerosis in its very early stages, and to track the effectiveness of treatments, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have fou Read More

DALLAS – June 7, 2010 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that cancer cells lacking a key protein are more invasive and more likely to metastasize, providing a possible drug target to combat certain tumor types. Read More

A minimally invasive technique used to destroy kidney tumors with an electrically controlled heating probe showed similar effectiveness as surgical removal of tumors in curbing cancer recurrence rates for up to five Read More

Reducing a protein called beta-amyloid in young mice with a condition resembling Down syndrome improves their ability to learn, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Read More