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UTSW Research: Exploring essential tremor, GLP-1RAs, and more: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-research-roundup.html
Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder affecting about 2% of the American population, and more than 20% of those over 90 years old. Despite its prevalence and decades of study, researchers don’t know the precise mechanisms underlying ET.
AI can identify stroke types using clinical notes, study shows : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-ai-strokes.html
Using only text from doctors’ notes and radiology reports, an artificial intelligence (AI) program known as GPT-4o reliably identified patients’ types of strokes, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.
A family faces a cancer crisis together: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/family-cancer-crisis.html
Catherine Carr Worley and her mother, Peggy Carr, both underwent cancer treatment at UT Southwestern, including use of the cool cap for hair preservation.
Guidelines target high cardiometabolic risk among South Asians: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/june-high-cardiometabolic-risk-among-south-asians.html
People of South Asian descent make up one-quarter of the world’s population, but they account for 60% of cardiovascular disease cases. To help reduce the elevated risk of heart disease among South Asians living in North America, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers joined global colleagues in
COVID-19 infections in the U.S. nearly three times greater than reported, model estimates: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/covid-19-infections-in-the-us-nearly-three-times-greater-than-reported.html
World health experts have long suspected that the incidence of COVID-19 has been higher than reported.
Ticking time bomb: Malaria parasite has its own inherent clock: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/malaria-parasite-has-its-own-inherent-clock.html
The activity of the parasite that causes malaria is driven by the parasite’s own inherent clock.
Happiness might protect you from gastrointestinal distress!: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/happiness-might-protect-you-from-gastrointestinal-distress.html
Serotonin, a chemical known for its role in producing feelings of well-being and happiness in the brain, can reduce the ability of some intestinal pathogens to cause deadly infections
Transfer RNA regulates messenger RNA degradation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/nov-transfer-rna-regulates-messenger-rna-degradation.html
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.
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.
Gene in fat plays key role in insulin resistance: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/gene-in-fat-plays-key-role-in-insulin-resistance.html
Deleting a key gene in mice in just their fat made tissues throughout these animals insulin resistant, in addition to other effects, a new study by UT Southwestern researchers shows.