People with McArdle's disease "“ a condition marked by low tolerance for exercise and high risk of activity-related muscle injury "“ can dramatically improve their exercise tolerance by consuming a soft drink or equivalent before physical activity, investigators have discovered.
Drugs reduce risk of prostate enlargement and other complication of BPH by more than 65 percent.
Drug treats form of spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients.
Five health news tips for December featuring holiday-related topics.
Deleting a particular ion channel from sperm cells causes those cells to lose the power needed for fertilization, researchers found while expanding studies into male infertility.
Researchers have shown that the absence of a key oxygen-sensing molecule can lead to multiple developmental defects "“ from an enlarged heart to eye problems.
Researchers have shown that insulin family signaling is important for male sex determination, a discovery that furthers the understanding of testes formation and eventually could lead to treatments for reproductive disorders.
Two decades of caring for the sickest of newborns and their anguished families has taught Aziza Young quite a bit about joy and sorrow.
Southwestern Medical Foundation honored civic leaders Jerry Farrington and F.B. Pete Goldman with the 2003 Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award at the foundation's annual dinner last night at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel.
Record-setting new gifts and pledges to UT Southwestern Medical Center's Innovations in Medicine capital drive have brought the total raised to date to $301 million, and the enthusiastic donor response has persuaded campaign leaders to raise the overall goal from $450 million to $500 million.
A slew of recommendations made in 1997 by a committee commissioned to review the National Institutes of Health's efforts in clinical research has had a positive effect, according to a report.
Dr. David J. Mangelsdorf, professor of pharmacology and biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and an associate investigator in the university's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been awarded Germany's highly respected Heinrich Wieland Prize for his research on lipids.
1) Ward off type 2 diabetes by increasing physical activity; 2) Early detection can slow progression of kidney disease; 3) Dealing with osteoporosis the same for men as women; 4) Holiday parties can bring joy, and sometimes unplanned discomfort; 5) Addiction to painkillers not just affliction of rich and famous.
When conventional therapies for glaucoma have been exhausted, ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have a new surgical technique in their arsenal to arrest this blinding disease caused when there is too much pressure on the inside of the eye.
Dr. Luis Parada, director of the Center for Developmental Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been awarded this year's only American Cancer Society basic research professorship, making him one of 20 such designated professors nationwide.
The sale of unregulated and unmonitored contact lenses is a reckless endangerment of the ocular health of the U.S. public, warns the editor-in-chief of a scientific journal.
Researchers have been awarded $15.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study anthrax, ricin, plague, tularemia and Lassa fever "“ all pathogens that can be used as biological weapons.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have tested and validated novel proteins, created by California-based Xencor, that block activity of a major molecule involved in the onset of inflammation, an innovation that may translate into new therapeutic options for people with rheumatoid arthritis.
Nearly half of childhood cancer survivors have at least one fairly significant health problem later in life caused by their cancer or cancer treatment, according to a landmark study of nearly 10,000 survivors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and 25 other institutions.
An unusually high number of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War are becoming ill and dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which typically does not strike until decades later in life.
Research has led to the formation of Reata Discovery Inc., a Dallas biopharmaceutical company with $5.2 million in start-up financing and statewide and international business partnerships.
Certain enzyme inhibitors may slow tumor formation within weeks and could lead to treatments that retard or prevent recurrences of cancers, researchers have discovered.
Two diabetes medications taken by more than 6 million Americans may lead to serious side effects, including the onset of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema.
The notoriously long and arduous process of diagnosing multiple sclerosis may soon be simplified, a researcher has reported.
Physicians are hoping patients and their families will observe today's national Take A Loved One to the Doctor Day on Sept. 16 by seeking preventive care and undergoing simple screenings that could detect potentially life-threatening diseases.
There's a powerful new way of looking at disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. It's called the cryo-electron microscope, or cryo-EM.
A drug commonly used as an anti-inflammatory medication could also help children with an inherited form of rickets avoid complications from their disease, according to researchers.
Obese individuals traveling to a high-altitude destination should take extra precautions, according to researchers.
Researchers have discovered a second gene responsible for a rare syndrome that causes the loss of bone from the lower jaw, fingers, toes and collarbone.
Researchers have discovered a system to create antibodies in mice up to 10 times faster than previous laboratory techniques allowed.
Researchers have identified a main regulator of the system that controls membrane trafficking, debunking what scientists for a decade had thought controlled this process.
Physicians and pharmacists should be more proactive in reporting adverse drug reactions that result in liver damage after medications are approved by the FDA, writes a researcher.
AIDS patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma who receive the HAART "cocktail" therapy live much longer than those not treated with the therapy, researchers found.
Researchers have discovered that the presence of a particular protein can predict whether the most common childhood brain tumor will continue to grow or return following surgery.
Researchers have discovered a way to inhibit a biochemical process that accompanies labor and to postpone delivery for one to two days in pregnant mice.
Abnormally high calcium levels spurred on by a mutated gene may lead to the death of neurons associated with Huntington's disease, an inherited genetic disorder, characterized by mental and physical deterioration, for which there is no known cure.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have discovered a tumor-suppressor gene that, in fruit flies, simultaneously restricts cell proliferation and promotes cell death, a process that may also play an important role in the genesis of cancer in humans.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have taken the first step in defining the sites in human genes most prone to mutation, which eventually could lead to discovery of the genetic bases of many human diseases.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered a gene critical to the development of the human heart and that mutations in the gene lead to congenital heart defects -- the leading noninfectious cause of death in newborns.
Removing a gene that helps control the body's internal clock dramatically changes patterns of sleep, activity and feeding in mice, researchers have discovered.
A strain of E. coli that causes severe, sometimes deadly, intestinal problems relies on signals from beneficial human bacteria and a stress hormone to infect human cells, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has discovered.
A specific group of brain proteins is essential to activate communication between neurons, and without this group of proteins all functions of the central nervous system are disrupted, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered.
People know to contact a doctor when they're sick or injured. But if they can't sleep, they may benefit by waking up to a new specialty at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and contacting a sleep doctor.
A new finding revealing that the drug finasteride reduces the risk of prostate cancer by nearly 25 percent represents the culmination of three decades of research that began in the early 1970s at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
People who inherit a particular gene involved in lipid metabolism in the brain appear to be at higher risk of developing seizures after traumatic brain injury, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have partially uncovered the stages in the elimination of viral infections and cancer cells by the human immune system, a finding that may lead to better treatments for certain cancers.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have helped discover that an expectant mother's placenta nourishes her fetus by oxidizing fatty acids in addition to providing the developing fetus with glucose -- previously believed to be the placenta's only energy source.
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Mayo Clinic have discovered a novel genetic mutation that leads to a debilitating muscle condition known as myasthenia.
Low levels of an enzyme that degrades insulin could increase the risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in mice by doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, whose groundbreaking studies have led to the development of lifesaving, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs used by millions of people worldwide, have been named co-recipients of the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
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