2017 Article Archive
Lung cancer may go undetected in kidney cancer patients
Could lung cancer be hiding in kidney cancer patients? Researchers with the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Kidney Cancer Program studied patients with metastatic kidney cancer to the lungs and found that 3.5 percent of the group had a primary lung cancer tumor that had gone undiagnosed. This distinction can affect treatment choices and rates of survival.
Daylight Saving Time: Insight from father of CLOCK gene
As we embark on another spring of sunlit evenings, who better to address how daylight saving time affects our body clock than the father of the CLOCK gene: Dr. Joseph Takahashi of the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Research forum highlights collaborative efforts of students, mentors.
More than 100 entries were included in the 2017 Medical Student Research Forum, one of the most high-profile events whose key is the ongoing student-mentor relationship.
Young students get valuable glimpse through HPREP
As the 23rd annual Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) wrapped up its final Saturday, nearly 200 area high school students, most of them teens, and their parents received a clear message: If you think you have what it takes to achieve a career in the health care professions, then you are stepping up in life.
Hu selected to hold Kuro-o Professorship
Dr. Ming-Chang Hu, Associate Professor of Internal Medical and of Pediatrics, has been named as first holder of the Makoto Kuro-o Professorship in Bone and Kidney Research, made possible through generous support from the Charles Y.C. Pak Foundation.
Award honors UTSW research on communication between bacteria and humans
UT Southwestern Medical Center microbiologist Dr. Neal Alto has been named a recipient of the 2017 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research for his work on interspecies communication between disease-causing bacteria and the humans they infect.
Multicenter study finds no benefit to treating mild thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy
A large national study suggests that treating pregnant women for mildly low thyroid function does not improve the IQs of their babies or reduce preterm births or other negative outcomes.