Breast cancer clinical trials are not experiments. Rather, they are options for women with breast cancer to receive the gold standard of cancer care paired with advanced therapies that can greatly improve their outcomes.

This new technology, now in use at UT Southwestern, can increase the number of lungs available for transplant by up to 15 percent.

Melissa Robinson gave one of her kidneys to her friend, Dewayne Dunning. A doctor at UT Southwestern in Dallas talks about the advantages of having a living organ donor for such transplants.

Experience is important in any field, but in the complex realm of transplant medicine it’s crucial—translating directly to lives saved or significantly enhanced. In 2015, two UT Southwestern transplant programs have celebrated milestones in experience.

2015 has been an important year for the UT Southwestern transplantation programs, two of which reached significant milestones in the number of procedures their specialists have performed.

Already the largest voice center in the state, the UT Southwestern Clinical Center for Voice Care is poised to help even more patients in the Metroplex with the recent opening of its new location in Cowtown.

The interactive Hawn Foundation Patient Resource Center provides a world of medical information.

It was the day after Christmas and Randy Gideon was waking up from his bi-lateral lung transplant. Laid up and heavily sedated in the ICU, the well-known Fort Worth architect was surrounded by machines with tubes spilling from his torso. When he came to, he realized he could breathe.

For the eighth consecutive year, UT Southwestern Medical Center is the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth in U.S. News & World Report rankings and 11 of its specialties are nationally ranked specialties – the most of any hospital in Texas.

Couples and individuals who can’t conceive a baby on their own can turn to the gestational carrier program at UT Southwestern. UT Southwestern discusses why the service is so important for North Texas and how the process works.