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Daylight saving returns amid global debate to end clock change: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/daylight-saving.html
Daylight saving is approaching again, perhaps for the penultimate time in some countries where a fierce debate is being waged over its impact on health and the economy.
Inappropriate disclosure to vendor announced: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/inappropriate-disclosure.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center has informed affected patients of an inappropriate disclosure of their email addresses through use of a third-party vendor.
Real-world data at UT Southwestern shows benefit of early vaccination on health care workforce: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/real-world-data.html
Vaccinating health care workers resulted in an immediate and notable reduction of positive COVID-19 cases among employees, reducing the number of required isolations and quarantines by more than 90 percent.
UT Southwestern nearly doubles lifespan of mice with brain cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/brain-cancer.html
UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have developed technology that is spawning a much better form of drug delivery for gene therapy and has achieved a 43 percent increase in the survival of mice with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of human brain cancer.
Leave of Absence Nonpaid: Employee Life Events - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/life-events/leave-of-absence.html
If you are on a leave of absence or the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), take steps to continue insurance and to reactivate insurance.
Traditional risk factors predict heart disease about as well as sophisticated genetic test, study suggests: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/predicting-heart-disease.html
Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes, and smoking status, are at least as valuable in predicting who will develop coronary heart disease as a sophisticated genetic test that surveys millions of different points in DNA.
Super Bowl parties can be nutritious, healthy: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/super-bowl-parties.html
it’s important to have a game plan before tackling the Super Bowl spread.
Travel history should become routine in medical assessments to slow pandemics’ spread: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/travel-history.html
Integrating travel history information into routine medical assessments could help stem the rapidly widening COVID-19 epidemic, as well as future pandemics, infectious disease specialists recommend in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Gulf War illness not caused by depleted uranium from munitions, study shows: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/gulf-war-illness.html
Inhalation of depleted uranium from exploding munitions did not lead to Gulf War illness (GWI) in veterans deployed in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a new study co-authored by a leading researcher of the disease at UT Southwestern suggests.
STINGing tumors with nanoparticles: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/stinging-tumors-with-nanoparticles.html
A new nanoparticle-based drug can boost the body’s innate immune system and make it more effective at fighting off tumors, researchers at UT Southwestern have shown.