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Released: 10-Feb-2005 9:50 AM EST
Doctors Track Oklahoma Alzheimer's Patients Via Telemedicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Doctors in UT Southwestern Medical Center's Alzheimer's Disease Center are using telemedicine for follow-up appointments with patients in the Choctaw Nation, an American Indian population in southeastern Oklahoma.

Released: 3-Feb-2005 3:00 PM EST
February 2005 Health News Tips
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Five health tips from experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Subjects include cocoa's healthy qualities, heart health, seniors and constipation, children and household poisons and consulting physicians on pain reliever use.

2-Feb-2005 1:50 PM EST
New Function for Old Enzyme
UT Southwestern Medical Center

In a step toward understanding the early evolution of the cell, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that an enzyme important in the production of energy also protects the mitochondria, the energy factory itself.

Released: 1-Feb-2005 9:30 AM EST
Drug Treatment Shows Promise for Preventing Nerve Death in Huntington's Disease
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers have discovered that drugs commonly used to treat psychiatric illnesses and blood disorders in humans may protect the brain cells that die in people with Huntington's disease, possibly delaying the onset and slowing the progression of the disease.

Released: 27-Jan-2005 9:00 AM EST
Newborn Auditory Screening Can be Successful at Nation's Largest Hospitals
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Universal screening of newborns' hearing at large public hospitals can be done more effectively when infants are not only tested four hours after birth but also by rescreening those with a suspected problem before discharge, UT Southwestern researchers reported.

24-Jan-2005 12:20 PM EST
Local Environment Directly Influences Adult Stem Cell Reservoirs
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Using the common fruit fly, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that an intricate set of signals released by stem cells' surroundings governs their maintenance.

24-Jan-2005 12:40 PM EST
Exercise Helps Reduce Symptoms of Depression
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The first study to look at exercise alone in treating mild to moderate depression showed depressive symptoms were reduced almost 50 percent in adults who participated in 30-minute aerobic exercise sessions three to five times a week, according to researchers.

19-Jan-2005 1:50 PM EST
Low-Dose Aspirin Better for Heart Patients with GI Complications
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Heart patients with gastrointestinal complications should use low doses of aspirin combined with drugs to treat stomach ulcers rather than taking the anti-platelet drug Plavix, according to a gastroenterologist from UT Southwestern Medical Center and the VA.

18-Jan-2005 1:10 PM EST
How Protein Allows Insects to Detect and Respond to Pheromones
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how an olfactory binding protein links incoming pheromone signals and specific nerve cells in an insect's brain, which in turn translate those signals.

Released: 5-Jan-2005 3:20 PM EST
January 2005 Health News Tips
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Health Tips. Five tips from experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Subjects include on-the-job eye safety, liposuction, snoring, an alternative to hysterectomy called uterine fibroid embolization, and prostate cancer.

Released: 28-Dec-2004 3:50 PM EST
Calcium Intake Contributing Factor in Formation of Kidney Stones
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Individuals with either calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate kidney stones should not take extra calcium on their own as suggested by previous research, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found.

Released: 22-Dec-2004 1:20 PM EST
Medical Center Acquires Zale Lipshy, St. Paul University Hospitals
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Zale Lipshy and St. Paul University Hospitals will consolidate with UT Southwestern Medical Center Jan. 1, 2005, a move medical administrators hail as crucial to the center's further development and delivery of world-class patient care.

Released: 15-Dec-2004 3:30 PM EST
Holidays Heighten Need for Better Measurement, Treatment of Depression
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Nineteen million Americans suffer from depressive disorders. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are continually searching for new and better ways to help people beat depression, one symptom at a time.

14-Dec-2004 5:30 PM EST
Researchers Find Circulating Tumor Cells in Long-Term Cancer Survivors
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that some long-term breast-cancer survivors may have innate mechanisms to keep breast cancer at bay.

13-Dec-2004 1:50 PM EST
Gene Family Involved in Determining Potential for Acquiring Lupus Located
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found a gene family involved in determining the potential for acquiring lupus, a debilitating autoimmune disease that affects more than one million Americans.

Released: 14-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
Gene Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease Shows Promising Results
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have found a way of stimulating the immune systems of mice to fight against amyloid proteins that cause the devastating plaques that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

8-Dec-2004 9:20 AM EST
Research Points to New Theory Driving Evolutionary Changes
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have used canine DNA to identify a genetic mutation mechanism they believe is responsible for rapid evolutionary changes in the physical appearance of many species.

Released: 9-Dec-2004 1:40 PM EST
Gene Therapy Reduces Skin Cancer to Sunburn in Mouse Model
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have successfully tested the first gene therapy for skin cancer, using a mouse model for the disease xeroderma pigmentosa, or XP.

Released: 7-Dec-2004 9:30 AM EST
Harold C. Simmons Foundation Donates $15.4 Million for Comprehensive Cancer Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas entrepreneur Harold C. Simmons and his family have given $15.4 million to UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to enable the institution to significantly increase its cancer research program and attract one of the nation's top oncologists.

2-Dec-2004 12:10 PM EST
How Virus That Causes AIDS Spreads Following Oral Exposure
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have utilized an animal model to trace how the virus that causes AIDS in humans may enter and spread throughout the body following an oral exposure.

Released: 1-Dec-2004 2:30 PM EST
December 2004 News Tips
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Five consumer, holiday-season tips from experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Subjects include the true meaning of Santa, holiday asthma, mixing medications, depression and food-borne illness.

Released: 30-Nov-2004 12:20 PM EST
Holiday Season Puts Kids at Greater Risk of Injury
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The holidays can be a joyous time of year, but can also be dangerous to children if caregivers or party hosts forget to take proper precautions, according to experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Released: 30-Nov-2004 10:40 AM EST
UT Southwestern Initiating Trials in Humans for Ricin Vaccine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A potential vaccine for the deadly toxin ricin, a "Category B" biological agent, will enter the first phase of clinical testing in coming weeks at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

23-Nov-2004 2:20 PM EST
Heart Protein Could be Used to Repair Damage Caused by a Heart Attack
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A protein the heart produces during its development could be redeployed after a heart attack to help the organ repair itself, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have found.

Released: 11-Nov-2004 5:50 PM EST
Generic Anti-inflammatory Causes Fewer Gastrointestinal Complications
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The generic anti-inflammatory etodolac causes 60% fewer GI complications than similar, branded drugs, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Dallas VA have found.

9-Nov-2004 2:40 PM EST
Researchers Discover Molecular Timekeeper in Bone Development
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a protein that controls an early and significant step in the process of bone formation.

Released: 10-Nov-2004 6:00 PM EST
First in Texas to Treat Patients with Tomotherapy Radiation Technology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center is the first in Texas to begin treating patients with a TomoTherapy system utilizing image-guided radiation therapy.

5-Nov-2004 5:20 PM EST
Medication Dramatically Decreases Congestive Heart Failure in African-Americans
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A new medication has dramatically reduced mortality among African-American patients suffering from heart disease, according to results of a study including UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers.

Released: 3-Nov-2004 11:00 AM EST
Holiday Tip Sheet
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Six holiday tips from experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Subjects include holiday allergies, cooking and nutrition, depression, seasonal illnesses such as flu and choosing the best toys for your children.

Released: 28-Oct-2004 9:10 AM EDT
Only Breast Care Center in Region with Dedicated MRI Technology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Carol Wittig is just one of an estimated 204,000 women in the United States who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. But instead of traveling to various locations for testing and treatment, the 46-year-old Brownwood businesswoman found all she needed at the Center for Breast Care.

Released: 22-Oct-2004 12:40 PM EDT
NIH Funds New Bioinformatics Resources at UT Southwestern
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded two collaborative contracts, totaling $46 million, to Northrop Grumman Corporation's information technology sector.

Released: 19-Oct-2004 9:20 AM EDT
Process for Sugar-Induced Fat Formation
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are one step closer to understanding how high carbohydrate diets lead to obesity and diabetes.

Released: 18-Oct-2004 11:00 AM EDT
Physicians Elected to National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Two faculty members at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas "“ one specializing in genetics and heart disease and the other in urologic illness "“ were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, a component of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.

13-Oct-2004 4:50 PM EDT
Reconstituted Blood Is Better for Infants’ Heart Surgery than Fresh Blood
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Using reconstituted blood "“ packed red cells and fresh-frozen plasma that are mixed in the operating room just before use "“ for heart bypass surgery in infants works better than using fresh whole blood, researchers found.

Released: 6-Oct-2004 4:50 PM EDT
October 2004 News Tips
UT Southwestern Medical Center

1) Halloween goodies can be good for your kids; 2) Calcium intake may help reduce risk for colon cancer; 3) Flu shots especially important for people 65 and older; 4) A key to slowing the flu bug; 5) Calcium, potassium citrate supplements can check risk of kidney stones.

Released: 30-Sep-2004 9:00 AM EDT
$1.78 Million Grant for Obesity Research as Part of NIH Roadmap Initiative
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has been awarded a prestigious three-year planning grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the causes of obesity and associated metabolic diseases.

Released: 29-Sep-2004 12:30 PM EDT
Biochemist Honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Steven McKnight, chairman of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, a new initiative designed to support exceptionally creative investigators.

Released: 27-Sep-2004 3:20 PM EDT
Gulf War Syndrome Veterans Have Damage in Specific Portion of Nervous System
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have uncovered damage in a specific, primitive portion of the nervous systems of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome.

17-Sep-2004 4:20 PM EDT
Center to Acquire Advanced Radiation Technology, Chemotherapy Clinic
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center in Weatherford will undergo a $1.8 million upgrade in its radiation treatment technology and expand its 911 Foster Lane facility to include a chemotherapy clinic.

Released: 13-Sep-2004 2:40 PM EDT
Prolonged, Sustained Exercise Prevents Precursor to Heart Failure
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Prolonged and sustained endurance training prevents stiffening of the heart, a condition associated with the onset of heart failure, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Released: 10-Sep-2004 9:20 AM EDT
September 2004 News Tips
UT Southwestern Medical Center

1) Don't overload your kids' backpacks; 2) With kids on the run, keep healthy snacks handy; 3) For those who prefer fast food, a healthier meal now an option; 4) Intimacy can return after breast cancer surgery; 5) Summer may end, but not the menace of West Nile virus.

8-Sep-2004 4:30 PM EDT
Reducing Allergens in the Home Helps Inner-city Children with Asthma
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A study designed to reduce the levels of indoor allergens "“ conducted in the homes of inner-city children with asthma "“ resulted in fewer asthma exacerbations and unscheduled visits for asthma during a two-year period, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher who participated in the multicenter study.

2-Sep-2004 1:30 PM EDT
Small, Smac-like Molecule Encourages Death of Cancer Cells
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a small molecule that mimics the action of a key "death-promoting" protein in cells, a finding that could lead to more effective cancer therapies with fewer side effects.

Released: 1-Sep-2004 4:10 PM EDT
Liposuction Shown to be Safe Under Proper Conditions
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have completed the first comprehensive study of the effects of liposuction on different parts of the body during and immediately following the procedure.

Released: 31-Aug-2004 4:20 PM EDT
Participants Needed for Trial Evaluating Surgical Techniques for Women’s Prolapse
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Norma Stroup suffered from a pelvic organ prolapse for 20 years before finding relief through a new surgical technique offered by physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

30-Aug-2004 9:20 AM EDT
NPAS3 and NPAS1 Genes May be Linked to Psychosis
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Mice with specific genetic mutations exhibit behavior similar to human psychosis, report UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers, providing further support to the notion of a genetic link to schizophrenia.

Released: 30-Aug-2004 2:00 PM EDT
New President Named for St. Paul, Zale Lipshy University Hospitals
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Sharon Riley, a former executive at medical centers in Maryland and Nebraska, has been named president of St. Paul and Zale Lipshy University Hospitals.

30-Aug-2004 9:10 AM EDT
Aggressive Treatment of Heart Patients with Cholesterol-lowering Medication
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Treating heart-attack patients earlier with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines may help diminish their chances of sustaining more complications later or dying after their heart attack, researchers have found.

Released: 26-Aug-2004 1:00 PM EDT
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Awards $12 million to Dallas Heart Study
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A $12 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will allow researchers to continue the Dallas Heart Study, a groundbreaking investigation of cardiovascular disease involving thousands of Dallas County residents.

17-Aug-2004 3:20 PM EDT
Teens with Depression Show Improvement When Medication, Therapy Combined
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Teenagers suffering from depression improved more with a combination of an antidepressant and cognitive-behavior therapy than they did when treated with either separately, a multicenter study.



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