Two specific genes involved in cholesterol transport are required for the most common way excess cholesterol is expelled from our bodies, according to scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Other researchers have called his discovery good detective work. Dr. Patrick Harran calls it good chemistry, and it's helped him win national acclaim.
Should disaster ever strike, Patrick Tiner offers a proven way to help families find calm and reassurance. Find your loved ones -- immediately.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have unraveled a mysterious connection -- a potential mechanism that links brain injuries in infants to an infection in the mother's placenta.
The National Institutes of Health has renewed the longest-running research project grant to UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas with a five-year, $10.7 million award. Researchers will explore the physiological, biochemical and molecular processes that cause acute responses and chronic adaptations of the cardiovascular and skeletal muscle systems to exercise.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has joined a nationwide trial to compare the effectiveness of digital mammography with screen-film mammography in detecting breast cancer.
Looking for sources for holiday stories? The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is home to some of the nation's leading experts on human disease, medical research, nutrition, psychology, emergency medicine, surgery, and children's health.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is home to some of the nation's leading experts on human disease, medical research, nutrition, psychology, emergency medicine, and children's health.
Staying healthy and fit during the winter holidays.
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Instead of waiting five to seven days to find out if a child brought to the emergency room tests positive for meningitis or whooping cough, new rapid diagnostic testing equipment will provide doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Children's Medical Center of Dallas with an answer in a few hours.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the University of California, San Francisco have shown that feeding behavior in worms is controlled by neurons that detect adverse or stressful conditions.
A class of drugs known as protease inhibitors has dramatically improved the long-term survival of HIV-infected patients, but these drugs also pose a serious side effect called lipodystrophy, which can cause extremely high cholesterol and diabetes.
Bypass surgery for stroke prevention hasn't been performed in U.S. hospitals since 1985. But it's finding new life in a clinical study at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Misconceptions about mammograms among women with breast implants may place their health at risk, say doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
A team of scientists representing 12 collaborating health-care centers, including UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, have found that antidepressant therapy -- specifically sertaline hydrochloride, or Zoloft -- can enhance the lives of many chronically depressed patients.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is one of 10 U.S. institutions to be awarded a multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant to develop faster methods to study proteins that are critical to drug development.
Dr. Stephen Cannon, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School, has been named chairman of neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Parents who want their children to get plenty of sleep, grow up healthy and do well in school often harbor sleep saboteurs under their roofs -- sometimes in the children's own bedrooms, according to a sleep expert at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and their colleagues have uncovered new information that will help brain researchers better understand a person's tolerance to drugs of abuse and open new avenues of investigation into the relationship of addictive-drug usage and the biological causes of mood disorders.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered a protein that regulates growth and development of the heart from its fetal stage to adulthood.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2 million grant to UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas for the purchase of a 30-ton, 800 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer that will add strength to the Department of Biochemistry's research programs.
The Texas Rural Health Association's Person Who Made a Difference Award has been re-christened in honor of former UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas faculty member Dr. Marion Zetzman.
A multi-million-dollar five-year federal grant will enable The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and The University of Texas at Dallas to establish the first National Institutes of Health sickle cell center in the Southwest.
Dr. Shane Kanatous, who is leaving for a research expedition to Antarctica in late September, plans to take some Dallas schoolchildren along with him - via the World Wide Web.
The lasting effects of Sept. 11 on everyday citizens caused Dr. Vicki Nejtek, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, to wonder how terrorism's aftermath impacts her vulnerable research population -- patients suffering from dual diagnosis.
Playing a new interactive CD-ROM may help save the lives of children with real-life emergencies that annually send millions to hospital emergency rooms.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have developed a vaccine in mice against the deadly toxin ricin. Ricin has been used as a biological weapon in many parts of the world.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have identified one of the key proteins involved in the establishment of the central nervous system.
Every morning millions of Americans reach for the world's most popular drug to help them start their day.
A new clinical trial at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas seeks to answer a question incontinence specialists have long struggled with -- which of two common, established surgeries for female urinary stress incontinence is better?
Two months shy of his 6th birthday, Sam Helsley of Fort Worth savors stepping up to bat. Playing T-ball may be a rite of passage for most boys his age, but for Sam, who's had more than his share of opponents, it's a hard-won victory. When he was 23 months old, he was diagnosed with an advanced-stage childhood cancer.
As a result of the need for tissue donations for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a nationwide plan has been developed to make tissue available in the event of future disasters.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have identified a gene they believe could predict risk for developing enlarged hearts and lead to treatments to control life-threatening heart growth.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found the blueprint for how filaments assemble during the development of caveolae, a membrane system that organizes signaling molecules used by cells to communicate with each other.
Researchers have discovered a second protein found in skeletal muscle that can transform sedentary muscles into energy-producing, exercised muscles.
Kenn Mingus knew something was dreadfully wrong 10 minutes after fire ants bit him. His lips became numb; his breathing was labored, he felt dizzy, and then passed out. He was rushed to the emergency room.
Popular low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets may result in rapid weight loss, but researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report that they also pose serious health problems, including an increase in the risk of kidney stones and a possible higher risk of bone loss.
A crucial piece of the puzzle into how the eye becomes wired to the brain has been revealed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Treating HIV-infected children with antiretroviral therapy can stop and potentially even reverse neurological damage caused by HIV, doctors from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report in an international study.
Niacin, a medication once discouraged for the treatment of lipid abnormalities in patients with diabetes, has the potential ability, when given in low doses, to be well-tolerated and effective, according to UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers, who led the multicenter trial.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers, using X-ray crystallography, have discovered how a particular cell enzyme finds its target and clearly carries out its role in the complicated process of cellular communication.
A drug widely used to treat patients with heart failure is as effective for black patients as it is for white patients, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
After 40 years of searching for the photoreceptor that controls multiple vital processes in fungi, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered the protein that triggers this phenomenon.
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have demonstrated in mice that a new drug formed by linking a vascular endothelial growth factor to a toxin will target and destroy the blood vessels supplying a malignant tumor.
A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas research team has developed two blood tests that quickly and reliably diagnose congenital syphilis in newborns.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that examining breast cells' molecular makeup can provide a better way to predict breast-cancer risk and that computer-based risk-assessment tools can help identify women who would benefit from genetic testing.
Cocaine, even in small amounts, can be fatal when taken in warm environments, such as hot weather, crowded nightclubs or rave parties -- all-night dance parties where illicit cocaine use is common -- according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
A state-of-the-art television screen is changing the way UT Southwestern neurosurgeons and their colleagues look at surgery.
A new rage -- the Botox party -- may seem innocent and even fun for a group who wants to participate in this nonsurgical cosmetic procedure. But the chairman of plastic surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas cautions that there can be unwanted consequences.
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