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Racial disparities in heart failure explained: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/racial-disparities-heart-failure.html
Researchers at UT Southwestern have uncovered evidence that the higher prevalence of “malignant” enlargement of the heart among blacks contributes to the higher incidence of heart failure in this population.
How to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic patients in pediatric clinical trials: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/july-pediatric-clinical-trials.html
While Black and Hispanic families are enthusiastic about research participation, other provider and systems-focused factors may influence their involvement in pediatric oncology clinical trials, a new UT Southwestern Medical Center-led study has found.
AI-powered electrocardiogram detects early signs of heart failure : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/may-ai-powered-electrocardiogram.html
Interpreting relatively inexpensive electrocardiograms (ECGs) with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm accurately screened patients for a key precursor of heart failure in Kenya, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.
Study of living brain tissue reveals how Parkinson’s treatment works: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/aug-deep-brain-stimulation.html
A team co-led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has identified cellular and molecular mechanisms that could explain the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS).
Rewriting the cancer story: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/july-rewriting-cancer-story.html
Matteo Ligorio’s phone started buzzing just after 3 a.m. The texts from a hospice nurse indicated “Patient 14” had just passed away, which meant Dr. Ligorio and his team had less than four hours to honor her dying wish.
EHR vendor-sponsored education creates inappropriate bias, researchers say: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/electronic-health-record-vendors.html
Electronic Health Record vendors in the $31.5 billion industry should not be permitted to provide continuing medical education activities and presentations to physicians to avoid bias, researchers argue in a perspective article for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ journal, Academic Medicine.
UTSW researchers uncover new vulnerability in kidney cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/new-vulnerability-in-kidney-cancer.html
Qing Zhang, Ph.D., and his colleagues identified a possible way to treat tumors while sparing nearby healthy tissue.
UTSW researchers and international collaborators find human protein that potently inhibits coronavirus: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/protein-potently-inhibits-coronavirus.html
A protein produced by the human immune system can potently inhibit several coronaviruses, including the one behind the current COVID-19 outbreak, an international team of investigators reports today.
Helping the heart heal itself - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/helping-the-heart-heal-itself.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have discovered a protein that works with others during development to put the brakes on cell division in the heart, they report today in Nature.
Looking inside a tiny heart to fix a big problem: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/tiny-heart-big-problem.html
When Haley and Zachary Sanders had their first baby, Rowan, and learned she had multiple heart defects, they were shattered. They never imagined technology borrowed from video games would help save their baby’s life.