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April 26, 2023 • Banner feature, HSC Health, Pediatrics, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Boys & Girls Club, Catch one, Early Childhood Intervention, Enhanced Community Coordination, Family Central, Gill Children’s Services, Healthy Start, Julia Marut, My Health My Resources, Safe Haven, YMCA,
The HSC Pediatric Mobile Clinic utilizes a rich network of community resources to approach each patient from a whole health perspective. The PMC is a pediatrician’s office on wheels, equipped with everything a provider needs to perform well-child checks, acute visits, vaccinations and more. This mobile care center travels to areas with limited access to…
April 18, 2023 • Banner feature, Whole Health food pantry, Student Assistant Resource Center, Whole Health,
This article is part of a series highlighting whole health initiatives on HSC's campus. It’s 6 p.m. and you just got out of class. You remember you need to get gas and a few groceries for the week, but rent was due this morning, and you don’t have enough money to get both gas and…
April 14, 2023
Robert “Bob” Luedtke Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience in the School of Biomedical Sciences, and pioneer in the research of dopaminergic pathways in the brain, passed away on Sunday, March 19. Dr. Luedtke received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and did postdoctoral studies in immunogenetics at the Institute…
April 13, 2023 • Banner feature, Sustainability Cowtown Farmers Market, food deserts, microgreens, Office of Sustainability, Sprouting change,
At a recent Cowtown Farmer’s Market, a group of volunteers from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth set up a booth to hand out free sprouting kits. The package included a five-salad microgreen seed mix, a sprouting jar with a lid, and an educational booklet. The HSC volunteers were there…
April 11, 2023 • HSC Health Mammograms, mobile mammography clinic, UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute,
From 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on April 27, HSC is hosting the UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute mobile mammography clinic for all faculty, staff and students who do not have known breast problems. Early detection can stop breast cancer before it spreads. It only takes 20 minutes of your time. Mammograms are for women…
April 6, 2023 • Students, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Whole Health Medical mission trip, Office of Rural Medical Education, ROME, Texas college of osteopathic medicine, Texas Rural Health Association, underserved communities,
The Texas Rural Health Association chapter at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth partnered with the Office of Rural Medical Education to run free medical clinics in one of the most medically unserved areas in the state. The TRHA student leaders from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine worked with…
April 3, 2023 • Banner feature, School of Public Health Community Health Block, Public Health Week, School of Public Health,
To celebrate Public Health Week on campus, students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s School of Public Health have planned a weeklong series of events that kicked off on Monday. The Community Health Block party featured more than 20 campus organizations who set up tables to dole out swag,…
March 30, 2023 • TCOM moral injury
Last year, the medical profession lost more than 130,000 doctors, while only adding roughly 30,000. Physicians have suicide rates as much as 40% higher than the general population, signaling something is desperately wrong with the system they work within. Moral injury in health care describes the challenge of simultaneously knowing what care patients deservingly need but…
March 30, 2023 • School of Public Health All for them, Christina Robinson, Crowley ISD, Erika Thompson, Fort Worth ISD, HPV, vaccines, vaccines in schools,
When Erika Thompson, Ph.D., received an invitation to bring more life-saving vaccines to children and adolescents in North Texas, she leapt at the opportunity. Thompson, an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s School of Public Health, learned about the All…
March 16, 2023 • Multi School, School of Public Health, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Giving Kids a Smile, HPV vaccine, Human papillomavirus infection, School of Public Health, Texas college of osteopathic medicine, TWU’s dental hygiene program,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is partnering with the Texas Woman’s University dental hygiene program to bring a new Healthy Smiles Initiative to the fourth annual Giving Kids a Smile event. TWU’s dental hygiene program has provided free oral care to children in North Texas for several years through…
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