2017 Article Archive
Hamon Center researcher to lead international ‘dream team’ on regenerative heart medicine
Regeneration specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center will join a “dream team” of international researchers seeking ways to regenerate damaged heart muscle in heart failure patients.
Even small weight gain is bad for the heart
Modest weight gains – even among those who aren’t overweight – can cause dangerous changes to the heart, but small amounts of weight loss can improve the condition, new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists shows.
Inaccurate respiratory rates could impact patient safety, researchers say
Patients’ respiratory rates are often not accurately recorded in the hospital, researchers in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research have found.
Study: Eating at ‘wrong time’ affects body weight, circadian rhythms
Scientists have more evidence that the time of day we eat is more critical to weight loss than how much we eat.
Do breathing issues hamper exercise in overweight preteens?
Do overweight children have more breathing limitations, intolerance for exercise, and breathlessness when exercising than normal weight children, leading to possible misdiagnosis for conditions such as asthma?
Researchers report chemical reaction with potential to speed drug development
Chemists have long sought to develop new reactions for the direct conversion of simple hydrocarbon building blocks into valuable materials such as pharmaceuticals in a way that dependably creates the same chemical bonds and orientations. UT Southwestern researchers have hit upon a novel way to do that.
Medical students shine during new curriculum’s Clerkship phase
One of the defining elements of the new UT Southwestern Medical School curriculum is that the students now begin clinical work much earlier in the four-year program.
Combo immunotherapy may herald new standard of care for kidney cancer
Combination therapy with two immunotherapy drugs produces an unprecedented doubling of response rates from 20 percent to 40 percent, a new study shows.
Suter receives Army’s 2016 Mologne Award
Dr. Robert E. Suter, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center who also serves as a Colonel in the Army Reserve, has received the prestigious 2016 Lewis Aspey Mologne Award, the Army surgeon general’s award for military academic excellence.
Medical student receives HHMI support for research
Austin Moore, a UT Southwestern Medical School student who will complete his third-year rotations in June, has been awarded a Medical Research Fellowship by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).