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Glucagon, a hormone best known for promoting blood sugar production in the liver, also appears to play a key role in maintaining kidney health.

A subpopulation of gut bacteria given a commonly used antibiotic became “persisters” that were able to survive without developing true resistance, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists discovered.

Women who take oral contraceptives may be significantly less likely to experience certain musculoskeletal injuries than women who do not take the drugs or men, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Heart failure patients may one day be able to restore cardiac function with medications that revive the body’s ability to regenerate heart muscle, a novel study at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests.

Patients with a common movement disorder known as essential tremor (ET) developed dementia at three times the rate of similarly aged people in the general population, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.

Two hard-to-match transplant patients 250 miles apart are starting 2024 on a new path to healthy lives. That’s because UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Solid Organ Transplant Program and University Health Transplant Institute in San Antonio searched beyond their own institutional networks to identify compatible living kidney donors for their failing patients.

Patients who are younger than about 40, male, or Black are among those most at risk for revision surgery after having had a total knee replacement, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies that adopt four or more critical best practices have higher rates of survival among cardiac arrest patients than their peers, a nationwide study co-led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher found.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is collaborating with Pfizer Inc. to develop RNA enhanced delivery technologies for genetic medicine therapies through the Dallas-based medical center’s Program in Genetic Drug Engineering.

Cancer cells release a significantly more concentrated level of acid than previously known, forming an “acid wall” that could deter immune cells from attacking tumors, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists show in a new study.