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August 27, 2014
Tarrant County's first case of Chikungunya fever was reported recently in a Mansfield resident who recently returned from the Caribbean. Common symptoms of the mosquito-borne virus are fever, joint pain, headaches and muscle pain. UNT Health Science Center Medical Entomologist Joon Lee, PhD, who oversees a West Nile Virus mosquito-surveillance program with the City of…
August 25, 2014
Students from Trimble Tech High School at last year's Culinary Competition High school students are learning to prepare healthy food for the public with help from a contest cooked up by FitWorth and mulitple partner organizations that include UNT Health Science Center. In its second year, the Culinary Competition challenges 24 teams to create…
August 22, 2014
A team of UNT Health Science Center physicians has proposed a new medication management plan that could improve outcomes and enhance the quality of life for patients at high risk of stroke. Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal, irregular heart rhythm that affects as many as 2.2 million people in the United States. People with the…
August 21, 2014
Tickets are now on sale for UNT Health Science Center's annual "An Evening with a Legend" fundraiser, this year featuring Jay Leno, the renowned comedian and 22-year host of "The Tonight Show." The performance benefits the UNT Health Science Center Foundation in support of the university's research, education and health care mission. Presented with a…
August 20, 2014
The UNT Health Science Center, including Founders Activity Center, will be closed for Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 1. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians also will be closed Monday in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will resume on Tuesday. The Gibson D. Lewis Library will be open Labor Day, with modified…
August 20, 2014
Anna Brown was about to abandon her dream of becoming a scientist when the Summer Researcher Internship Program at UNT Health Science Center changed her mind. "I wasn't certain if research was right for me," said the University of Texas junior. "But this program erased all doubt and showed me the steps I need to…
August 19, 2014
The long-term consequences of a stroke often are more severe than the attack itself, a medical reality that researcher Shaohua Yang, PhD, MD, hopes to alter. "A stroke is like an earthquake," said Dr. Yang, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at UNTHSC. "It triggers a lot of other problems downstream." Brain damage, loss of…
August 18, 2014
After a few minutes of twisting, twirling and unlocking limbs, the six students of Team Green credited good communication skills with helping them unwind from a human knot in record time. "It does help you get to know people," incoming Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences student Thomas Mock said of the exercise. "And it's more…
August 15, 2014
By Sarah Matches, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics It's become easy for us to forget the horrors of a disease such as polio, which as recently as the 1950s crippled about 35,000 Americans each year. Today, there is no naturally occurring polio anywhere in the United States. This public health victory, like so many others,…
August 14, 2014
On the day before Easter, Tom and Pam Kearney arrived in Fort Worth from their home in Michigan feeling anxious and uncertain. An injury to Tom's xiphoid process caused excruciating pain in his chest - and the Kearneys traveled to Fort Worth so Albert Yurvati, DO, a surgeon at UNT Health Science Center, could perform…
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