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A lost voice doesn’t turn into a lost dream: TCOM student overcomes cancer twice to make it to medical school
Tiffany Hang woke up to a lost voice one morning in August of 2019, and she was pretty certain it was just laryngitis, well, probably, but not 100% sure. You see, Hang had just spent the first four months of...
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Pictures worth more than words: CPH’s inaugural Writing Lab unites UNT Health and the Fort Worth community
Earlier this summer, the College of Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth hosted its inaugural Writing Lab. The three-day event housed within the College of Public Health was available to members of the CPH, UNT Health and Fort Worth...
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Physician Assistant Studies faculty member elected to national pediatrics PA board
Kenya Samuels, an associate professor in UNT Health Fort Worth’s Physician Assistant Studies program, has been elected as a member-at-large to the Society for PAs in Pediatrics, or SPAP, board of directors, marking a significant step in her career and...
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Seeing double? No, just identical twins who were almost separated for the first time
Haydon and Payton Miller have been together as long as they can remember, which you would expect for identical twins. They went to the same school system in the tiny town of Dimmitt, Texas. They went to Texas Tech for...
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UNT Health researchers awarded $2 million collaborative NIJ grant
With support from a $2 million collaborative grant from the National Institute of Justice, researchers from UNT Health Fort Worth are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop new software to help forensic anthropologists accurately identify human remains. The...
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Eye health checkups: one more item for back-to-school checklists
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month -- just in time for students heading back to the classroom. According to Prevent Blindness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eye health and safety, estimates that one out of every 122 children...
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Heartbreak into healing: How a TCOM student’s loss of her mother led her into medicine
Emma Astad remembers every detail of that day, even where the sun was in the sky the moment the phone call came with the heartbreaking news: her mother had been diagnosed with brain cancer. “That was the day I died...
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UNT Health PA students tackle HIV stigma through public health campaigns
In a packed lecture hall at UNT Health Fort Worth, first-year physician assistant students listened as Dr. Marc Johnson of JPS Health Network’s Healing Wings Clinic delivered a frank presentation on HIV — how it is acquired, how it is...
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Presidential appointments finalized for UNT Health and UNT Dallas
The UNT System Board of Regents voted unanimously to officially name Dr. Kirk Calhoun as president of UNT Health Fort Worth and Dr. Warren von Eschenbach as president of UNT Dallas, respectively. The unanimous vote comes after Texas' mandatory 21-day plus waiting period...
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TCOM student Brittany Uebbing selected as an AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute Scholar
A prestigious opportunity is on the horizon for Brittany Uebbing, a third-year student at the UNT Health Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, as she was selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation to join this year’s...
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