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New interactive map first to show life expectancy of Texans by ZIP code, race, and gender: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/life-expectancy-texas-zipcode.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists for the first time have calculated and mapped life expectancy by gender and race/ethnicity down to the ZIP code and county levels in Texas.
Underenrollment in clinical trials: Patients not the problem: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/clinical-trials-underenrollment.html
The increasing sophistication of cancer treatments threatens to outpace the ability of health care providers to enroll patients in clinical trials to test those therapies.
UTSW researchers identify new mechanism to reduce inflammation: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/reducing-inflammation.html
UT Southwestern researchers have identified two proteins that act as gatekeepers to dampen a potentially life-threatening immune response to chronic infection.
Triple negative breast cancer meets its match: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/triple-negative-breast-cancer-meets-its-match.html
One member of a larger family of oxygen sensing enzymes could offer a viable target for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), UTSW researchers report in a new study.
UT Southwestern levels the playing field for testicular cancer patients : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/testicular-cancer.html
Doctors were able to eliminate the effect of sociodemographic factors on patient outcomes by treating men at different hospitals with the same expert care
Scan for arterial plaque is better at predicting heart attack than stroke: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/arterial-plaque.html
The amount of calcified plaque in the heart’s arteries is a better predictor of future heart attacks than of strokes, with similar findings across sex and racial groups, according to new research from UT Southwestern.
Need to check patient's jugular venous pressure? There's an app for that : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/jugular-venous-pressure.html
A new report from cardiologists at UT Southwestern raises the hope that doctors will be able to visually check the jugular venous pressure of heart failure patients remotely, using the camera on a smartphone.
UT Southwestern No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth, Best Hospital rankings show: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/july-us-news-best-hospital.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center is the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth – the nation’s fourth-largest metro area – for the sixth consecutive year and ranks among the top hospitals nationally in nine specialties ranging from brain to heart to cancer care.
Findings may move science closer to growing organs in other species: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-growing-organs-other-species.html
Failure of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to survive when grown with the PSCs of distantly related species occurs because of an innate immune reaction in the nonhuman cells, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.
Targeting Nsp1 protein could be a pathway for COVID-19 therapy : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/targeting-nsp1-protein.html
A study that identifies how a coronavirus protein called Nsp1 blocks the activity of genes that promote viral replication provides hope for new COVID-19 treatments.