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UTSW scientists map life expectancy of Texans by area, race, and gender - CT Plus - UT Southwestern

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UT Southwestern scientists for the first time have calculated and mapped life expectancy by gender and race/ethnicity down to the ZIP code and county levels in Texas.

STARS gives students, teachers access to cutting-edge science

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The STARS program recently completed its 27th year of activities, with 51 high school students and a half-dozen teachers participating in the Summer Research Program (SRP) that featured eight weeks of research and learning in UT Southwestern laboratories plus weekly seminars.

Preemie Party! Babies who arrived too early celebrate life with hospital staff who worked to save them: CT Plus - UT Southwestern

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UTSW party reunited about 100 former preemie (prematurely born) patients and family members with the NICU nurses and other medical staff who cared for them at Clements University Hospital.

A new genetic pathway that prevents early aging - CT Plus - UT Southwestern

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Building upon their earlier discoveries, researchers at UT Southwestern have identified a new genetic pathway that prevents premature aging.

UT Southwestern ranked top Texas hospital and among top 40 nationally in U.S. by Newsweek

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UT Southwestern ranked top Texas hospital and among top 40 nationally in U.S. by Newsweek

First large-scale study establishes guidelines for measuring blood pressure at home

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Dr. Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Hypertension Fellowship Program at UT Southwestern, led the team of hypertension and cardiology researchers. The findings, reported in Hypertension, align with 2017 guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA).

Driven by and for students, UTSW's Quality Enhancement Plan puts the team first

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UT Southwestern Medical Center will soon launch its 2019 Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), developed in response to an institutional commitment to team-based communication, and as a component of the reaffirmation of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

'It was an amazing gift': Patients, donors gather to celebrate life at UTSW Transplant Reunion: CT Plus - UT Southwestern

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UT Southwestern’s living-donor programs offer better long-term outcomes because live donation allows patients to undergo surgery sooner in the course of their illness, with organs from the healthiest of donors. Center Times attended the Transplant Reunion, where several attendees shared their moving transplant journeys.

UTSW palliative care team fulfills cancer patient's dying wishes

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UTSW palliative care team fulfills cancer patient’s dying wishes

Meiers give $500,000 for cerebral amyloid angiopathy research - CT Plus - UT Southwestern

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Dr. Donald E. and Patsy Meier are no strangers to living charitably. Now they want to give back even more, inspired by Dr. Meier’s diagnosis in 2015 with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a degenerative condition of the brain that has no effective therapies. The couple have made a generous $500,000 gift to support CAA research at UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute that will screen for new drugs and test potential new treatments for the disease.