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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.
New heart attack testing protocol expedites treatment in ER - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/heart-attack-testing-protocol.html
A new protocol using highly sensitive blood tests to determine whether someone is having a heart attack
Long life, good health: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/long-life-good-health.html
The American Heart Association 2030 Impact Goals aim to help all people live healthier for more years of their life.
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.
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.
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.
Culinary Medicine programs aim to improve nutrition education for doctors : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/september-culinary-medicine-programs.html
Culinary medicine programs are emerging at medical schools to meet a critical need to improve nutrition education in an era of unprecedented diet-related health problems including obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Drug shows promise in overcoming endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-endocrine-therapy-resist.html
For patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, development of the so-called Y537S mutation signals that their disease has taken an aggressive course and may become resistant to endocrine therapy.
Financial assistance programs improve outcomes for indigent patients with inflammatory bowel disease: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-financial-assistance-programs.html
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who required treatment with biologic therapies and were enrolled in a financial assistance program were less likely to need surgery after starting medication than those not enrolled in a program, a study by UT Southwestern researchers found.
UT Southwestern study highlights racial bias factors in physician assistant training: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-racial-bias-factors.html
Physician assistant (PA) programs need to actively engage Black/African American students to help address issues of systemic racism, according to a new study.