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There’s no standardized, methodical approach for diagnosing and treating mood disorders, and because of this, patients who are fortunate enough to recognize their symptoms and receive treatment are often left with therapies that have little to no effect on their unique condition. It’s a problem that UT Southwestern and other doctors from renowned medical institutions around the country have made it their duty to solve.

UT Southwestern undertook a grand task to further unravel the secrets of our genetic foundation, and in doing so, uncovered the very gene responsible for generating mammalian circadian rhythms. It’s a discovery that not only continues to improve sleep behavior research, but also subsequently revealed a highly delicate interplay between body and mind at the cellular level.

Couples and individuals who can’t conceive a baby on their own can turn to the gestational carrier program at UT Southwestern. UT Southwestern discusses why the service is so important for North Texas and how the process works.

A national movement is underway to form comprehensive bone fragility programs such as ours at UT Southwestern. Expert providers can pinpoint and medically treat the underlying causes of fragility fractures, returning more patients to mobility and reducing recurrent fractures.

Already the largest voice center in the state, the UT Southwestern Clinical Center for Voice Care is poised to help even more patients in the Metroplex with the recent opening of its new location in Cowtown.

Courtney White had battled cystic fibrosis since she was a young child. By her 20s, the disease had gotten progressively worse, to the point that she was near death. Here's the story of how UT Southwestern physicians swung into action and used their expertise, and new technology, to give Courtney her second wind.

This new technology, now in use at UT Southwestern, can increase the number of lungs available for transplant by up to 15 percent.

A routine cholesterol check first threatened Chuck Dandridge’s retirement and then his life. But an experimental procedure at UT Southwestern and a gift from his son, Jon, produced a remarkable turnaround – and some medical history.

It was the day after Christmas and Randy Gideon was waking up from his bi-lateral lung transplant. Laid up and heavily sedated in the ICU, the well-known Fort Worth architect was surrounded by machines with tubes spilling from his torso. When he came to, he realized he could breathe.

Melissa Robinson gave one of her kidneys to her friend, Dewayne Dunning. A doctor at UT Southwestern in Dallas talks about the advantages of having a living organ donor for such transplants.