Search

With knee replacement surgery becoming more common, Varatharaj Mounasamy, M.D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center who specializes in hip and knee replacements, recommends taking off from work for a few weeks, joining a class to learn more about joint replacement, and attending physical therapy before surgery.

More clinical research is needed to investigate how reducing alcohol consumption in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) may slow disease progression and improve outcomes, according to an international task force of experts from more than two dozen institutions including UT Southwestern Medical Center.

A drug in clinical trials as a treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) works with a one-two punch that shuts down triglyceride production and fatty acid synthesis in liver cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers show in a new study.

Transfer RNA (tRNA), a genetic molecule well known for its contribution in reading the instructions for building proteins, is also key in regulating how long those instructions persist in cells, a new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.

Patients with advanced cancer who also had cardiac defibrillators were more likely than those without these implants to receive aggressive end-of-life care, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found in a new study.

Cancer cells salvage purine nucleotides to fuel tumor growth, including purines in foods we eat, an important discovery with implications for cancer therapies from research by Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern published in Cell.

The activity of the parasite that causes malaria is driven by the parasite’s own inherent clock.

Three drugs that are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other international agencies can block the production of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in human cells.

Two new studies suggest Medicare’s system of penalizing hospitals if too many patients are readmitted within 30 days should also look at whether the patients were well enough to remain in their home during that time.

Recently developed MRI techniques used to more precisely target a small area in the brain linked to Parkinson’s disease.