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Severe COVID-19 impairs microvascular function: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/severe-covid-19-impairs-microvascular-function.html
COVID-19 impairs the function of the body’s microvascular system with an intensity that corresponds to the severity of disease, suggests a new study by an international consortium, including UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Preventing “identity theft” in prostate cancer cells re-sensitizes them to therapy: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-prostate-cancer-cells.html
UTSW study suggests combination therapy might help prostate cancer patients overcome resistance to current treatments.
UT Southwestern researcher, international team solve decades-old structural mystery surrounding the birth of energy-storing lipid droplets: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/energy-storing-lipid-droplets.html
In humans, virtually every cell stores fat. However, patients with a rare condition called congenital lipodystrophy, which is often diagnosed in childhood, cannot properly store fat, which accumulates in the body’s organs and increases the risk of early death from heart or liver disease.
UT Southwestern ranked among 20 Best Employers for Diversity, top health care institution : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/top-employers-diversity-forbes.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center is one of the nation’s best employers for diversity, according to America’s Best Employers 2022 list compiled by Forbes and Statista.
New guidelines laid out to standardize swallowing fluoroscopy : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/july-guidelines-swallowing-fluoroscopy.html
Swallowing fluoroscopy is the most common diagnostic test for patients with swallowing problems caused by conditions such as stroke, head and neck cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or prolonged intubation.
UT Southwestern diabetes researchers show gene editing can turn storage fat cells into energy-burning fat cells: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/energy-burning-fat-cells.html
A team of researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Touchstone Diabetes Center have successfully used CRISPR gene editing to turn fat cells normally used for storage into energy-burning cells.
UTSW researchers uncover new vulnerability in kidney cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/new-vulnerability-in-kidney-cancer.html
Qing Zhang, Ph.D., and his colleagues identified a possible way to treat tumors while sparing nearby healthy tissue.
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.
Surgery restores eye muscle function to patients with facial paralysis: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/restoring-eye-muscle-function.html
Surgeons at UT Southwestern have developed and analyzed the benefits of a cutting-edge technique that provides patients with facial paralysis the ability to close their eyes.
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.