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A dietary supplement developed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher significantly reduced high blood sugar caused by a diuretic used to lower blood pressure while also correcting electrolyte imbalances, UTSW researchers report.

Poor diets have been linked to seven of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, from heart disease to diabetes and certain types of cancer. Yet many physicians are not equipped to counsel patients about healthy food choices, and most medical students and trainees do not receive adequate training in this discipline.

Kidney damage that seemingly heals appears to mutate the DNA in the mitochondria of kidney cells, making the organ less resilient to future stressors and reducing its function over time, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.

A microprotein called adipogenin appears to play a key role in helping fat cells store lipid droplets – a phenomenon that’s pivotal for metabolic health, a study co-led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.

Activating specific neurons in a part of the brain that serves as the body’s master circadian pacemaker caused mice to eat significantly more during a time of day when they would normally be at rest, a UT Southwestern Medical Center study shows.

The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children’s education, recreation, and social lives, it also increased the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. pediatric population by roughly 1 million youngsters, according to a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

Antibodies that target specific tuberculosis (TB) proteins are effective at inhibiting the bacteria that cause TB, the infectious disease that claims the most lives worldwide, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.

Overweight and obesity patients without diabetes who switched GLP-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) drugs were more likely to stick with their treatment longer than those who didn’t switch, according to a new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

A single, high dose of radiation delivered before other treatments could completely eradicate tumors in most women with early-stage, operable hormone-positive breast cancer, according to a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two distinct populations of cells known as antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts (apCAFs) that appear to support the survival and growth of malignant tumors. Their findings, reported in Cancer Cell, could one day lead to new therapies for notoriously hard-to-treat cancers, including pancreatic cancer and advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) that has spread throughout the abdomen, known as peritoneal metastasis.