Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found that using sustained-release sodium fluoride with calcium citrate and vitamin D safely reduces the risk for vertebral fractures while increasing spinal bone mass in older women with osteoporosis.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has developed a gynecological cancer genetics clinic in conjunction with the medical center's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. Recently, it had also begun to serve community patients at Parkland.
Marysol Rojas' mission is to teach women to talk with each other about cancer, especially cancer that attacks their ovaries, the deadliest women's cancer. That's why she volunteered for a study at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where researchers are developing a test for ovarian cancer.
Dr. Norman F. Gant Jr., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a component of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found that elevated levels of a cardiac hormone is predictive of an increased risk of death or heart failure in patients with complications of coronary artery disease.
Doctors at UT Southwestern killed a tumor on one of a patients kidneys with radiofrequency ablation, which involved only a needle and a CAT scan. After a one-hour procedure at Zale Lipshy University Hospital, the patient was back home, cancer-free.
A landmark heart disease study at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which will continue for at least seven more months, has already identified a large number of study participants who have undiagnosed high blood pressure or diabetes.
Six months of exercise can reverse the decline in physical conditioning associated with aging, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reported in a 30-year follow-up to the 1966 landmark Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered a biochemical pathway that helps describe how neurons in the brain and spinal cord form their connections. Further study into the new data could lead to discoveries in nerve regrowth and regeneration.
To focus at the molecular-level on the mechanics of human cells with a clarity rarely possible, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will install a $1.6 million state-of-the-art electron microscope and related equipment, officials said today.
Stroke patients who take an amphetamine before speech-language therapy regain their speech at a faster rate than patients who go through speech-language therapy without the drugs, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers report.
Despite hemophilia's persistent threat of prolonged bleeding, children with the disease run a high risk of developing dangerous internal blood clots from long-term central venous catheter implants, according to research at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Two common findings from a traditional physical examination can provide important information for the 5 million Americans diagnosed with heart failure, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
People who want to brighten their smiles are opting for over-the-counter bleaching kits instead of visiting their dentist's office. While generally safe, these products have the potential to cause an infection or nerve damage, say UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas oral surgeons.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in collaboration with scientists at the University of Helsinki, Finland, have discovered a previously unknown connection between Lkb1, a tumor-suppressor gene associated with a rare genetic disorder called Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key regulator of blood vessels.
Physicians should consider the possibility of cocaine use as a culprit when young adults are brought to emergency rooms for nontraumatic chest pains, according to researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
A biochemistry team from the Department of Veterans Affairs and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has identified a glucose-sensitive protein that translates excessively high-carbohydrate intake into body fat, especially when combined with a sedentary lifestyle.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report that administering replacement estrogen via a skin patch is superior to oral estrogen replacement therapy in lowering blood pressure and sympathetic nerve activity - the neural control of blood pressure - in postmenopausal women.
A new liposuction device that varies the amount of ultrasound used is enabling UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas plastic surgeons to help patients recover with less bruising and discomfort than traditional ultrasound-assisted liposuction.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have found a protein that controls the development of the heart - a discovery that could contribute to novel methods of creating heart cells which could be used in the treatment of various cardiac conditions.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists discovered that genes near human telomeres can be silenced. This may help explain how and why humans age.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered a link between insulin signaling and certain tumor-suppressor genes that may lead to significant progress in diabetes and cancer research.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that labor induction alone does not increase the probability of Caesarean section in pregnant women who exceed their due date.
A promising beta-blocker did not prolong survival of patients with advanced heart failure, according to a study conducted by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
A panel of the nation's top cholesterol experts convened by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has issued new guidelines focusing on preventing coronary heart disease, which is expected to lead to more than 35 million Americans, three times as many as currently, taking cholesterol-lowering medication and more than 65 million following a new recommended diet.
Many Americans suffer heartburn, but for some it's more frequent and serious. A new study by a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physician, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that anti-reflux surgery is no better for treating severe heartburn than antacid medications.
The beta-blocking drug carvedilol reduces the risk of death and the symptoms of mild to moderate heart failure in black patients as well as it does in nonblack patients, according to results from the U.S. Carvedilol Heart Failure Trials Program led by a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Under certain circumstances pediatric cancer patients recovering from chemotherapy can be treated as successfully as outpatients as they would be if hospitalized, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers report.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have located the gene that, when mutated, is responsible for autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia, an inherited form of high cholesterol characterized by low-density lipoprotein levels of 350 to 600 milligrams per deciliter.
Cigarette smoking, especially in young women, can cause brain aneurysms and most patients don't know of the danger.
Getting a tattoo could be a key infection route for hepatitis C, the most common chronic viral infection affecting almost 2 percent of the United States population, according to a study by a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher.
The next major project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the Mission to Mars.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Rockefeller University have uncovered new information about dopamine-related activity in the brain that may lead to better understanding of the long-term brain-cell changes associated with cocaine addiction and addiction recovery. (Nature, 3-14-01)
The over-expression of a protein produced naturally in the human body inhibits cardiac hypertrophy and ultimately heart failure in transgenic mice, according to a study conducted by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will be the site of the new National Training Program for the Comprehensive Care of Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis funded by the U.S. Congress.
Physiology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, working with Korean researchers, have connected defects in the transport of bicarbonate with cystic fibrosis. Their findings raise the question about whether delivering bicarbonate to diseased tissues can someday be used to lessen the effects of cystic fibrosis in patients and even extend their lives. (Nature, 3-1-01)
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have reaffirmed the value of the nearly 50-year-old Apgar score as a quick and easy predictor of 28-day neonatal survival.
Knowledge gained from the human genome-mapping project already is leading to a better understanding of how drugs and alcohol act on the molecular and cellular mechanisms and brain pathways to cause addiction, a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher and his colleague say. (Nature, 2-12-01)
The Center for Biomedical Inventions at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has launched its first technology partnership, marking a milestone in the center's efforts to help build a biomedical industry in North Texas.
A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher has found that mutated mice bred without an essential protein exhibit symptoms of a rare disorder that causes involuntary "mirror movement" in people. (Neuron, 1-01)
Substituting margarine for butter reduces "bad" cholesterol - called low-density lipoproteins (LDL) - in adults and children, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. (JAMA, 12-5-00)
A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas doctor is performing a new procedure that can detect pre-malignant and malignant breast cells long before they become visible tumors.
Individualized medical treatments for people diagnosed with heart disease may not be too far in the future with the expansion of genomic research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The expansion is being made possible by a $13.9 million federal grant.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have found that a device which can be used by airline flight crews can save the lives of sudden cardiac arrest victims aboard aircraft as well as be used for monitoring patients. (New England Journal of Medicine, 10-24-00)
Providing high-risk infants with more comprehensive follow-up care not only results in substantially healthier babies, but also saves money, according to a study by a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physician. (Journal of the American Medical Association, 10-25-00)
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found that a high intake of the antioxidant vitamin E reduces levels of a predictor of cardiovascular disease called C-reactive protein, or CRP.
Secure Internet sites could become an important tool for medical research, according to an article by two UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physicians. (JAMA, 10-11-00)
A UT Southwestern Medical Center study proves that a recently developed fluid-based Pap test offers a relatively simple way for molecular changes in cell samples to be analyzed. This process could lead to the development of biomarkers identifying women at risk for cervical cancer. (Obstetrics and Gynecology, 9-11-00)
The NIH has awarded a $4.6 million, five-year grant that will allow UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas technology researchers and biologists to work together to develop new therapies for type II diabetes mellitus.
A strong link between brain cell loss on the left side of the brain has been found in sick Gulf War veterans and abnormal over-production of dopamine, a neurotransmitter chemical important in such conditions as degenerative brain diseases (Journal of Radiology, 6-00).
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