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October 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month's topics include breast-cancer screening, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and having a safe Halloween. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 5, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Despite size, NFL players not more likely to develop heart disease, even after retirementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Former professional football players with large bodies don’t appear to have the same risk factors for heart disease as their non-athletic counterparts, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found in studying a group of National Football League (NFL) alumni. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 30, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Director of Alzheimer's Disease Center honored with first international neurology medalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Roger Rosenberg, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the first Medal for Scientific Achievement by the World Federation of Neurology. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 28, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Pancreatic fat levels may help predict diabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers have long suspected that overweight people tend to have large fat deposits in their pancreases, but they’ve been unable to confirm or calculate how much fat resides there because of the organ’s location. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 22, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

September 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month's health news tip topics include single-incision weight-loss surgeries, organizing a home for Alzheimer's patients, proper hydration and African-Americans' risk for high blood pressure. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Dysport proves safe, effective anti-wrinkle treatment, plastic surgeons findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The new anti-wrinkle facial filler Dysport, which could be used as an alternative to Botox, noticeably reduced frown lines between the eyes, according to users and independent reviewers in a study involving plastic surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - August 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern earns grant from American Heart Association for Cardiac Myogenesis Research CenterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers Drs. Jay Schneider, Joseph Hill and Eric Olson have been awarded a $2 million grant from the American Heart Association to study the development and mechanisms of generating new cardiac muscle cells. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - July 20, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals rankings: UT Southwestern tops North Texas with citations in 4 specialtiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is nationally ranked in more specialty-care areas than any other health care provider in North Texas in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Hospitals 2009-10. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - July 16, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern, UT Arlington to collaborate on magnetically controlled tools for minimally invasive surgeryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Arlington have reached an agreement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. to develop a groundbreaking toolbox of magnetically controlled surgical instruments for minimally invasive surgery. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - July 9, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern research reveals how cells tell timeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The fuzzy pale mold that lines the glass tubes in Dr. Yi Liu’s lab doesn’t look much like a clock. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - June 8, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern's Olson wins prestigious French award for heart researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the Institut de France’s prestigious Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Grand Prize for his work on gene regulation in the cardiovascular system. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - June 4, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

June 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month UT Southwestern clinical experts discuss the benefits of unplugging, protecting your ears from water damage, how to avoid gaining weight after getting married, and protecting your skin from sun damage. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - June 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Oxygen + MRI might help determine cancer therapy success, UT Southwestern researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - June 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern president honored for contributions, leadership in gastroenterologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, president of UT Southwestern Medical Center, has received the American Gastroenterological Association’s 2009 Julius Friedenwald Medal for Distinguished Service for his lifelong contributions to the field of gastroenterology. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - June 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern immunologists identify biochemical signals that help immune cells remember how to fight infectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Immunology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how two biochemical signals play unique roles in promoting the development of a group of immune cells employed as tactical assassins. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 28, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Researchers gain ground in efforts to fight parasite infectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New findings by researchers UT Southwestern Medical Center are accelerating efforts to eradicate worm infections that afflict a third of the world’s population. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 26, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Participants in antidepressant drug trials are atypical patients, UT Southwestern researchers reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One reason antidepressant medication treatments do not work as well in real life as they do in clinical studies could be the limited type of study participants selected, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 13, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern cosmetic surgeons host evening of education, awareness and safetyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Perhaps the plastic surgery reality television shows and dramas have helped pique interest. Perhaps it’s a desire to look better for a job interview or a mate or to better fit into the changing fashions that rule the day. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 6, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

May 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month UT Southwestern clinical experts discuss preventing hepatitis, avoiding landscaping injuries, the dangers of ADHD medications for adults and coping with stress. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 5, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern doctors receive top American Heart Association awardsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Scott Grundy, director of the Center for Human Nutrition and chairman of clinical nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Dr. Ronald Victor, chief of hypertension at UT Southwestern, have received two of the top awards presented by the American Heart Association. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 4, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Small molecules might block mutant protein production in Huntington's diseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Molecules that selectively interfere with protein production can stop human cells from making the abnormal molecules that cause Huntington’s disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern names interim dean for medical schoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical Center President Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky today named Dr. Charles M. Ginsburg interim dean for UT Southwestern Medical School. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - May 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers probe kidney damage, protection in lupusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Kidney damage associated with the autoimmune disease lupus is linked to a malfunction of immune cells that causes them to congregate in and attack the organs, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in a mouse study. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 21, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers pinpoint where 'bad' cholesterol levels are controlledEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a protein responsible for regulating “bad” cholesterol in the blood works almost exclusively outside cells, providing clues for the development of therapies to block the protein’s disruptive actions. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 17, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

New ultrasound-guided biopsy method allows improved diagnosis of endometrial disease, UT Southwestern researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A procedure used in conjunction with a vaginal ultrasound might make it easier to visualize and diagnose diseases in the lining of the uterus, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 14, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack, UT Southwestern scientists reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 10, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern University Hospital earns Outstanding Achievement Award for cancer careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern University Hospital recently received the Commission on Cancer (CoC) Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 7, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Public forum to address connection between excess body fat and cancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Friends for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research will hold its Spring Public Forum “Can You Change Your Risk: The Link Between Diet and Cancer” on Wednesday, April 22, at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers reveal how the brain processes important informationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on how the neurotransmitter dopamine helps brain cells process important information. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers find marker for severity in adult brain cancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new biological indicator that may help identify which brain-cancer patients have the most aggressive forms of the disease. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

April 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month UT Southwestern clinical experts discuss mental health, autism, the outdoors and minor injuries and nutrition. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - April 1, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Gene linked to lupus might explain gender difference in disease risk, UT Southwestern researchers reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In an international human genetic study, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a gene linked to the autoimmune disease lupus, and its location on the X chromosome might help explain why females are 10 times more susceptible to the disease than males. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 30, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans, UT Southwestern researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Where different ethnic groups store fat in their bodies may account for differences in the likelihood they’ll develop insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 27, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern scientist named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career ScientistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Russell DeBose-Boyd, associate professor of molecular genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 26, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern public forum on Alzheimer’s disease will focus on mechanisms of learning and memoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Friends of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center will hold a Spring Public Forum on April 1 at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Craig Powell, assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry at UT Southwestern, will discuss “Mechanisms of Memory: Therapeutic Opportunities in Alzheimer’s Disease.” (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 25, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Diabetics on high-fiber diets might need extra calcium, report UT Southwestern researchersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend, in part, on the amount of dietary fiber you consume. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report that patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes (type 2) excreted less calcium through their urine when they consumed 50 grams of fiber a day than when they ate 24 grams a day. Excreting less calcium indicates that they absorbed less of the mineral. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 24, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Gulf War veterans display abnormal brain response to specific chemicals, UT Southwestern researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome — a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures and may lead to diagnostic tests and treatments. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 20, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Collagen injections can help some incontinence patients when surgery fails, UT Southwestern researcher findsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Collagen injections can benefit women who still suffer from stress urinary incontinence (SUI) even after urethral or periurethral surgery, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 17, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Estrogen activates critical lung genes to improve lung function following preterm birth, UT Southwestern researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve lung function and other outcomes in preterm infants, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in an animal study. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 12, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers probe mechanisms of infectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they’re stressed. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 9, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Authors, journal editors respond to possible cases of plagiarism identified by UT Southwestern analysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By bringing cases of potential plagiarism out into the open, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on the peer-review process and scientific publication. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 5, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Two UT Southwestern researchers awarded Sloan fellowshipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows, an award intended to “support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers, and often at pivotal stages in their work.” (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

March 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month UT Southwestern clinical experts discuss whole grains and nutrition, RSV in children, sexual dysfunction in MS patients and severe calorie-restricted diets. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - March 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern teaching hospital halves its rate of premature births, researchers findEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical Center’s primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 27, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Burn rehabilitation experts at UT Southwestern outline best treatments for post-burn itchingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jim Mashburn felt his legs cook. A co-worker was able to pull Mr. Mashburn out of the pit within 30 seconds, sparing him a worse fate, but he was left with first-, second- and third-degree burns on both legs. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 25, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern researchers identify molecule that helps the sleep-deprived to mentally reboundEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sleep experts know that the mental clarity lost because of a few sleepless nights can often be restored with a good night’s rest. Now, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a key molecular mechanism that regulates the brain’s ability to mentally compensate for sleep deprivation. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 24, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

UT Southwestern scientists identify potential key to Lyme diseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that may help give Lyme disease its bite. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 9, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

Fat-free diet reduces liver fat in fat-free mice, UT Southwestern researchers reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered crucial clues about a paradoxical disease in which patients with no body fat develop many of the health complications usually found in obese people. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

February 2009 News TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month UT Southwestern clinical experts discuss heart disease in women, the nutritious benefits of cherries, smoking and colon cleansing (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 3, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations

High-tech Texas hospitals see fewer complications, lower costs, researcher findsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Texas hospitals using health information technologies had fewer complications, lower mortality rates and lower costs, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - February 2, 2009 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: organizations