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FitWorth Healthy City Initiative finds new home at UNTHSC
The FitWorth Healthy City Initiative to promote the health of Fort Worth families has found a new home on UNT Health Science Center's campus in Fort Worth. The program, established in 2012 by Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and the...

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Video: Fort Worth community celebrates unveiling of Pediatric Mobile Clinic
The goal of the Pediatric Mobile Clinic is to improve the overall health of children in Tarrant County, 75,000 of whom are uninsured. The clinic, unveiled during a celebration Tuesday at Morningside Middle School, will be staffed by a medical...

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Pediatric Mobile Clinic opens with cheers and a drumroll
With a drum line and a cheerleading squad providing a soundtrack, UNT Health Science Center President Michael R. Williams and a group of Fort Worth leaders celebrated the opening of the new Pediatric Mobile Clinic on Tuesday. "It's not often...

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Medical students encourage kids to wear bike helmets
"Will you wear your bike helmet every time you ride?" medical student Jerica Lomax asked 7-year-old Marisa Salas as she adjusted a shiny new helmet to fit Marisa's head. She nodded vigorously. "Do you know why you wear a helmet?"...

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Pediatric Mobile Clinic officially hits the road
UNT Health Science Center's Pediatric Mobile Clinic officially hits the road the first week of May, bringing high-quality health care directly to children living in underserved areas of Fort Worth. The specially equipped state-of-the-art mobile clinic will provide examinations for...

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Community Garden’s group effort grows produce for local food banks
The UNTHSC Community Garden is a new way that the Health Science Center creates a healthier community. The community at large has donated more than $3,000 worth of materials including soil, organic fertilizers, plants and compost bins. The garden is...

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Fort Worth celebrates Health Challenge victory over Des Moines
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price accepted the victor's trophy Tuesday for the city's win over Des Moines, Iowa, in FitWorth's 10-Week Health Challenge, which ended April 4. Doug Reichardt of Iowa's Healthy State Initiative presented the trophy during the City...

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Students help connect at-risk women with free mammograms
UNT Health Science Center students are helping connect at-risk women to potentially life-saving breast cancer screenings and prevention information. At a recent event in East Arlington, volunteers signed up women for fully-funded and low-cost mammograms that will be offered May...

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Built environment expert featured at 7th Annual North Texas Health Forum
For more than 35 years, Dan Burden, Co-Founder and Director of Innovation and Inspiration for the non-profit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, has traveled the world to make it a healthier place. A nationally recognized authority on walkable, livable, healthy...

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UNTHSC provides help to seniors in facing the fear of falling
One day last summer, 74-year-old retiree Darold Klamt, surveying his handiwork in his well-kept yard, walked...
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