The smallest 3 percent of infants born at term and of the same gestational age are at the greater risk of death or disability - compared to the 10 percent previously believed to be in danger.
Once again researchers have discovered that men and women may not in fact be equal - at least with respect to the pattern of precancerous lesions in the lungs of current and former smokers.
Furthering evidence of the importance of vitamin E, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have identified the pathway that may allow the vitamin to block the trigger of arterial plaque formation at the molecular level.
Investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a new way to isolate purified cancer cells - an important advance that will help unravel the mysteries of tumor biology and cancer development.
Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will be participating in the first-ever drug trial for patients with the most rare form of multiple sclerosis, primary progressive MS.
A routine test already in use to diagnose prostate cancer and enlarged prostate could also predict the likelihood of a patient requiring surgery or developing acute urinary retention.
A recently developed electro-analgesia technique may offer new hope to patients who suffer from chronic, debilitating back pain, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have isolated the gene they believe is responsible for the most common genetic cause of heart and facial birth defects.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas now have a better understanding of the protective role that estrogen plays in cardiovascular disease.
Borrowing from the ancient practice of Chinese acupuncture, a newly developed electrical nerve-stimulation technique may help alleviate pain associated with cancer that has spread to bones, said researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that human cells grown in the laboratory and immortalized by the introduction of the enzyme telomerase are not transformed into cancer cells.
Discovery of a marker that allows tracking of thymus function also shows how the adult immune system might repair itself after being damaged by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists reported in today's issue of Nature.
Identification of a gene that normally prevents endotoxic shock - which causes at least 20,000 deaths a year in the United States and possibly one million worldwide - was reported by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers in today's issue of Science.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have made a critical discovery about blood-flow regulation during exercise and, in the process, have uncovered a clue about a culprit behind Duchenne dystrophy, also known as childhood muscular dystrophy.
In laboratory tests vitamin E prevented the early stages of plaque formation by preventing white blood cells from sticking to cells that line the artery wall -- another weapon in the antioxidant's attack on heart disease, according to research at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Discovery of a mutation that prevents sperm maturation could lead to treatments for male sterility and development of new male contraceptives, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists reported in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has inaugurated a new bone-marrow transplantation program, which will provide potentially life-saving therapies to patients with some forms of cancer.
Everyone knows that aspirin helps reduce inflammation, but for years no one knew how. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas now have an answer, which could lead to the design of more effective anti-inflammatory drugs.
Myoglobin, the protein long thought to be the sole carrier of oxygen to heart and certain skeletal muscle, is not necessary for survival, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists reported in today's issue of the journal Nature.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are using the p53 gene, inserted into an inactive common-cold virus, as a novel way to attack ovarian cancer in a patient.
Patients with advanced head and neck cancer that hasn't improved with surgery, radiation or chemotherapy may benefit from an experimental therapy available at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Two video screens, each suspended from cantilevered booms, face both sides of the surgical table. Videocassette recorders and assorted monitors rest in staggered modules below the screens. Gleaming surgical instruments lie in precise rows.
Discovery of a new human tumor-suppressor gene by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers could dramatically reduce the number of Americans who die annually from the two most lethal cancers, lung and colon malignancies.
UT Southwestern is one of only seven clinical research sites in the nation and one of the first to begin correcting moderate degrees of farsightedness accompanied by astigmatism with an excimer laser.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a procedure that will allow physicians to accurately measure kidney function in a short period of time, enabling patients to spend less time in the clinic.
A third-year surgery resident from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas frowns with concentration as he tries to keep his eyes on the video screen and off his hands while suturing a foam sponge.
The development of the first animal model for colorectal cancer by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will facilitate research into the molecular mechanisms of colorectal cancer and provide a model system for testing chemoprevention agents and new drug treatments.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have uncovered what they believe is a marker of autoimmune disease activity in patients with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Moms and dads contribute equal amounts of DNA to their baby --almost. Each parent donates one chromosome from each of the 23 pairs humans have. But only mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the mother passes to the fetus.
In a discovery that may shed light on why people absorb cholesterol at different rates, scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the National Institutes of Health have narrowed their search for a gene responsible for abnormal cholesterol absorption in individuals with a rare hereditary disease.
The creation of a drug that would mimic some of the health-promoting benefits of regular exercise could be possible because UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have found a genetic switch that tells muscles how to behave.
A defective lipid structure appears to be the culprit behind many chronically dry eyes, a condition that affects millions of Americans, according to clinical research by ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Each year 20 million Americans are affected by kidney and urological diseases, while 150,000 develop acute kidney failure. The current treatment for kidney failure is dialysis --a sometimes painful and always costly stop-gap measure that is not a cure-- or kidney transplant
Gulf War veterans have died or been hospitalized at excessive rates since the war, a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher reports in the Aug. 15 American Journal of Epidemiology.
In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, obstetrics and gynecology researchers have concluded that walking during the first stage of labor is neither harmful nor beneficial to the mother or baby.
A computer program recently developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found the markers on all DNA sequenced so far in the international Human Genome Project, and the list is now available on the Internet.
The Center for Breast Care at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation have teamed up to offer a new one-year fellowship for physicians interested in the multispecialty care of breast-cancer patients.
Urologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will soon test whether severe incontinence can be improved by applying electrical stimulation to a spot near the ankle to stimulate the nerves that affect bladder control.
Findings from a study, in which a gene that speeds cholesterol metabolism was turned off, will help scientists develop better drugs for controlling life-threatening levels of the substance, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reported in the May 29 issue of Cell.
Every year millions of people with "normal" cholesterol levels suffer chest pain or heart attacks. A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas study indicates these individuals may suffer from a high concentration of a type of cholesterol not detected with conventional screenings.
Using two drugs already available, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas may have found a cure for a condition that puts 5 million Americans at risk for sudden death -- an enlarged heart, or cardiac hypertrophy.
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are offering the first plausible molecular explanation of why the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease.
Results of a four-year study involving 3,040 men have shown that those taking the drug finasteride (Proscar) for enlarged prostate glands reduced their risk of needing surgery or experiencing acute urinary retention by more than half.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas believe newly discovered hormones produced in the brain may influence development of obesity and diabetes.
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and their colleagues at Geron Corp., Menlo Park, Calif., say they have figured out how to overcome the mechanisms that control cellular aging and extend the life span of human cells. The article appears in the Jan. 16 issue of Science.
Researchers have answered a fundamental question about how G proteins, the cell's message relay switch, coordinate and control signals that determine cell activities. By looking at the crystal structure of one type of G protein (Gs-alpha) bound to its target, an enzyme found in heart tissue, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists also uncovered a possible target for cardiac drugs.