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  • Education
| October 11, 2019

Reducing infant mortality rates at the heart of new grant

By Steven Bartolotta It was the summer of 1994, Amy Raines-Milenkov, DrPh, was a student at the University of Texas starting her year-long internship in social work and the AIDS epidemic was rampant across the nation. Over that next year,...

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  • Education
| October 11, 2019

From Green Belt to public health, it’s all people-driven

By Sally Crocker What do public health, health care, academics and a Six Sigma Green Belt have in common? They all share synergies for learning, progress, quality improvement and collaboration, says Arthur M. Mora, PhD, new UNTHSC School of Public...

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  • Education
| October 8, 2019

New collaborative grant to help reduce risk of medication errors

By Steven Bartolotta A collaborative effort has been launched by several health care organizations to help address the nation’s burgeoning crisis of preventable medication-related harm. Each year, the nation’s hospitals record more than 700,000 emergency room visits and 100,000 hospitalizations...

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  • Community
| October 8, 2019

Pharmacists provide patient value in team-based care

By Jan Jarvis  With inhaler in hand, Dr. Cheng Yuet went over every detail to make sure the patient understood how the drug would control their COPD symptoms.  "Use it every day, whether you feel like you need it or...

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  • Education
| October 4, 2019

TCOM grads from the same hometown team up as chief residents

By Steven Bartolotta and Jennifer Hetro In life, your path is meant to cross with some certain people. Allyson Matthys, DO, and Vikaash Persad, DO, 2017 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates, are two of those people. Matthys grew up...

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  • Education
| October 2, 2019

Patient, pupil and protégé

By Alex Branch Chelsee Greer was 13 when Dr. W. Paul Bowman sat in her hospital room and gently explained how he would try to cure her cancer. Five hours from their Odessa home, Greer and her mother, Lindee, traveled...

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  • Community
| October 1, 2019

October proclaimed Health Literacy Month

By Jan Jarvis  Nine out of 10 Americans may lack the knowledge and skills needed to manage their health and prevent disease.  To focus attention on this issue, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price has proclaimed October as Health Literacy Month....

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  • Education
| September 26, 2019

The evolution of the physician assistant

By Alex Branch  To understand why physician assistant is one of the hottest jobs, meet Victoria Florez.  She fielded four job offers before she even graduated last year from the UNT Health Science Center Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program.  Each...

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  • Community
| September 26, 2019

Vaping advice for parents

By Sally Crocker The time is now for parents to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their kids about the danger of vaping, says a UNT Health Science Center researcher with experience in this area. “For parents who know their kids...

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  • Research
| September 24, 2019

Researcher hopes to make gene-editing device safer and more precise

By: Jan Jarvis The mere mention of gene editing and DNA altering might conjure up images of designer babies, but that is not what researcher Jin Liu has in mind. She wants help to find a cure for life-threatening diseases...