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| March 19, 2014

UNTHSC physician offers tips to avoid colon cancer

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and that makes it a good time to consider whether you should get a colon-cancer screening. While colon cancer is the second most lethal cancer in the U.S., improved screenings have helped lower...

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  • Education
| March 19, 2014

UNTHSC symposium will focus on improving health literacy

One-third to one-half of the U.S. population has a low level of health literacy. That means they may have trouble filling out complex forms, managing chronic diseases or properly taking medications. This inability to understand health information has emerged as...

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  • Education
| March 17, 2014

UNTHSC, TCU students cook up nutritious dishes to improve health

  Lyn Dart, PHD (center), director of the TCU Food Management Program, helps TCOM students Linh Vo (right) and Rolando Cantu Jr. prepare a lunch dish. “I have a better understanding of the variety of healthy, delicious meals that can...

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  • Community
| March 12, 2014

UNTHSC manages ‘one-stop shop’ for missing person cases

  Click here to watch the video For cold-case detective Stuart Somershoe, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a "one-stop shop" for unsolved cases. "We all have pieces of the puzzle," said Somershoe, who works for the...

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| March 11, 2014

Dr. Thomas Yorio honored with international research award

Thomas Yorio, PhD, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, has received the International Society for Eye Research 2014 Ernest H. Bárány Prize. The award is given in recognition of Dr. Yorio's outstanding contributions to research that have increased...

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  • Education
| March 11, 2014

UNTHSC keeps top ranking in primary care, rural medicine from U.S. News & World Report

UNT Health Science Center ranks among the top medical schools in the country for primary care for the 13th consecutive year, according to U.S. News & World Report. UNTHSC is first in Texas and fourth nationally in the percentage of...

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| March 10, 2014

Dr. Amy Raines-Milenkov to serve on maternal mortality task force

Amy Raines-Milenkov, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, has been appointed to a state task force to study pregnancy-related deaths and morbidity. Dr. Raines-Milenkov will serve a five-year term on the...

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  • Community
| March 10, 2014

UNT Health Science Center holiday on Friday

The UNT Health Science Center will be closed Friday, March 14. All classes, administrative offices and Founders' Activity Center will be closed during this time. UNT Health offices and clinics will be open as usual on Friday. Gibson D. Lewis...

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  • Education
| March 7, 2014

UNTHSC students, faculty earn top honors at state physician assistant conference

  Ashley Waldrop, Jessica Van Noy and Hannah Bereuter Physician Assistant students from the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth swept the Challenge Bowl at a statewide conference in San Antonio. The team of second-year students Ashley Waldrop, Jessica...

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  • Patient Care
| March 6, 2014

Developing a consistent routine will help in adjusting to clock changes

The arrival of Daylight Savings Time on Sunday means more sunshine in our days, but it also means we will lose an hour of sleep, an hour that most of us will have trouble getting back. At least 40 million...