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January 27, 2015 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
In the late 1970s when Jim Walton, DO, MBA, graduated from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, he and others faced a clear and inconsistently applied bias against the profession. What a difference 40 years make. Dr. Walton was recently installed as the 132nd president of the Dallas County Medical Society and the first osteopathic…
January 27, 2015 • School of Public Health
Breakfast, lunch, dinner - everybody eats. But how much do most of us really think about food, how it reaches our tables and how it affects us? Factors that impact our world's food supply and health - from environment/agriculture, animal health, food safety and distribution to rural development, climate and weather - are far-reaching and…
December 15, 2014 • College of Pharmacy
Sun lovers are bombarded daily by warnings about the cancer dangers posed by their passion. But researchers now are offering hope to patients with skin cancer that they could be treated one day with a radioactive bandage containing exactly the right dosage to shrink tumor lesions. Researchers say such a bandage s could be used…
December 15, 2014
Medical students learn far more about how disease changes a life when they talk to real patients. That's why UNTHSC's Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine invites people with various health conditions to its Fort Worth campus to be interviewed by these physicians-in-training. "We are unique in using actual patients to train students in clinical communication,"…
November 18, 2014 • Physical Therapy
Dr. Claire Peel (left) introduces her certified therapy dog,Luke, to UNTHSC employees during a campus event. Every Sunday, the cocker spaniel visits Fort Worth assisted-living communities to brighten the mood of depressed or lonely residents. Physician Assistant student Ana Maria Chaidez was stressing out. An exam was imminent, and her confidante and friend was absent.…
November 11, 2014 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Joseph LaManna III witnessed the impact of osteopathic medicine as a kindergartener following his physician father, Joseph LaManna Jr. on his Sunday hospital rounds. That childhood experience helped set a path for Dr. LaManna to graduate from UNT Health Science Center in 1980, become a successful urologist and now serve as Chairman of the Board…
November 11, 2014 • Archive
During his 13 years in the U.S. Air Force, Maj. Kevin Peterson and his fellow pilots shared a strategy when it came to doctors - avoid them. Tell a flight doctor you have even mild symptoms and risk finding yourself off flight duty and facing months of tests, he said. "Pilots think all doctors do…
November 6, 2014 • School of Public Health
New Public Health & Prevention Council Chair Shirley Little (right) with outgoing Chair Libby Watson and School of Public Health Dean Richard Kurz, PhD. Shirley Little has been named Chair of UNT Health Science Center's Public Health & Prevention Council, replacing outgoing Chair Libby Watson. The Public Health & Prevention Council is one of three…
November 3, 2014 • Emergency Medicine, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
When a CareFlite helicopter lands at UNT Health Science Center on Thursday, it's not an emergency but an informal training session. The chopper fly-in is an annual opportunity for students to get up close with airborne emergency transport. Every day in the U.S., 1,370 patients fly to emergency care. To help prepare future health professionals…
November 3, 2014 • Orthopaedics, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
UNT Health Science Center will host Addiction Awareness Week Nov. 3-5 to help students and the public better understand the disease and help train them as future physicians. Addiction Awareness Week is presented by the Medical Student Government Association. "It is rare to find any individual who hasn't been touched in some fashion by addiction,"…
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