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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.

National study in children, adults weighs effectiveness of three anti-seizure drugs : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/three-anti-seizure-drugs.html

Three anticonvulsant drugs commonly used to stop prolonged, potentially deadly seizures each work equally well, according to a national study involving physicians at UT Southwestern.

UTSW pilots innovative tech to improve surgical skills, patient outcomes: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/improving-surgical-skills.html

OR Black Box brings multimedia perspective to traditional surgical reviews.

Remote neuropsychology tests for children shown effective: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/remote-neuropsychology-tests.html

Administering neuropsychology evaluations to children online in the comfort of their own homes is feasible and delivers results comparable to tests traditionally performed in a clinic, a new study led by UT Southwestern researchers and Children’s Health indicates.

Using machine learning to predict pediatric brain injury: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/machine-learning-pediatric-brain-injury.html

When newborn babies or children with heart or lung distress are struggling to survive, doctors often turn to a form of life support that uses artificial lungs.

Generic cholesterol drugs save Medicare billions of dollars, study finds: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/generic-cholesterol-drugs.html

The switch from brand name to generic cholesterol medications that occurred between 2014 and 2018 has saved Medicare billions of dollars, even as the number of people on cholesterol-lowering drugs has increased.

Drug combination could eliminate side effects of once-popular diabetes treatment: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/drug-combination-could-eliminate-diabetes-treatment-side-effects.html

Study shows how an effective but largely abandoned treatment for Type 2 diabetes could be used again in combination with another drug to eliminate problematic side effects.

Factors inherent to obesity could increase vulnerability to COVID-19: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/obesity-covid19.html

Conditions related to obesity, including inflammation and leaky gut, leave the lungs of obese patients more susceptible to COVID-19 and may explain why they are more likely to die from the disease, UTSW scientists say in a new article published online in eLife.

A sole mate to prevent diabetic foot ulcers: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/diabetic-foot-ulcers.html

A new cooling insole developed by UT Southwestern scientists reduced the foot temperature of patients with diabetic neuropathy by several degrees, diminishing a significant risk factor for diabetic foot ulcers.

$18.4 million in state funding to enhance Simmons Cancer Center research: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/cprit.html

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded UT Southwestern Medical Center more than $18.4 million for cancer research and faculty recruitment.