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UNTHSC launches Alzheimer’s study
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Goldman scholarship ‘means the world’ to driven student
By Jan Jarvis Sarah Edwards has always ridden her bicycle everywhere – to high school classes and later college, to part-time jobs and everywhere else. She has no driver’s license and few options. “We’ve never really had a car,” Edwards said. “But that didn’t stop me because I’ve always been very self-driven.” That ambition and drive is paying off. Edwards i...Read more
Sep 20, 2017
UNTHSC launches Alzheimer’s study
By Jan Jarvis One of the largest and most comprehensive studies ever conducted in the United States involving Mexican-Americans and Alzheimer’s disease is underway at UNT Health Science Center. The goal is to answer a consequential question: Why do Hispanics develop cognitive loss and Alzheimer’s disease almost a decade earlier than other ethnic groups? Funded by a $12 milli...Read more
Sep 14, 2017
A passion for public health
By Sally Crocker The School of Public Health was in its infancy when Lilly Ramphal-Naley, MD, MPH, joined as adjunct faculty in 2000. The school had been officially founded just one year before at UNT Health Science Center. Accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health was still a year away. But since those early days, Dr. Ramphal-Naley has been a constant -- teaching ...Read more
Sep 14, 2017
Students transform seniors’ lives with art and music
By Cari Hyden Mrs. Jones, a resident at Westmore Senior Living, wouldn’t leave her room and spent her days largely “staring at the walls.” But a class led by a UNTHSC student transformed her life and added a spark to the lives of many more Westmore Senior Living residents. Flora Park, a Medical Sciences graduate who is completing a one-year integrative physiology research ...Read more
Sep 14, 2017