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February 25, 2016 • Community, Our People
By Jeff Carlton For Jonathan Silk, the Battle of Al Kut truly began when his truck crashed in the midst of a firefight near a bridge spanning the Tigris River in that eastern Iraqi city. A scout platoon leader in the U.S. Army, Silk had just escaped his damaged truck when a rocket propelled grenade…
February 25, 2016 • Community, Patient Care
By Betsy Friauf A slam-dunk pilot project does more than win awards and put up great numbers. It makes a difference in people’s lives. That’s the case with “Asthma 411,” a collaboration between UNT Health Science Center and Fort Worth Independent School District. Nationally, 9.3 percent of children have asthma. In sad contrast, by…
February 23, 2016 • Community
By Jan Jarvis When Seth Willmoth started running in the summer of 2014 he weighed 340 pounds and could barely walk around the block. “It hurt like all get out,” he said. “But I just kept pushing through the pain.” Now 130 pounds lighter with thousands of miles under his belt, Willmoth, Assistant Director…
February 4, 2016 • Community, Education
By Alex Branch Would you know how to react in a cardiac emergency? About 70 percent of Americans say they would feel helpless because they do not know how to perform CPR. UNT Health Science Center medical students are doing their part to change that in Texas. About 50 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine…
February 2, 2016 • Community
By Alex Branch The announcement that UNT Health Science Center and Texas Christian University will create a new MD school together reflected the institutions’ shared vision of teamwork in education and caregiving that will benefit patients. This innovative project, so crucial to the future of health care in Fort Worth, is why both universities will…
January 14, 2016 • Community
The UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth will be closed Monday, Jan. 19, for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. However, all UNT Health clinics and offices will remain open during normal business hours. The Gibson D. Lewis Library will have modified hours on Monday, as well as during the preceding weekend. The Founders’…
January 6, 2016 • Community, Research
By Jan Jarvis For seven days, Rebecca Cunningham lay in bed, radioactive and isolated. “No one could get within six feet of me,” said Cunningham, PhD, who was undergoing radiation therapy for thyroid cancer. “I watched Netflix, slept and sucked on sour candy.” The isolation was hard. Even harder was the restrictive low iodine diet…
December 21, 2015 • Community
UNT Health Science Center will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 1, for the winter holiday. All classes and administrative offices will be closed during this time. Normal operations will resume on Monday, Jan. 4, at 8 a.m. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 24,…
December 18, 2015 • Community, Education
By Betsy Friauf This holiday season, an abandoned newborn boy has a loving home because medical student Chandler Sparks, 24, and his wife, Emily, feel called to serve humankind. They are the foster parents of a baby born this fall whose mother left him at the hospital. He went into foster care immediately, and his…
December 17, 2015 • Community
By Betsy Friauf The Health Science Center supports cleaner air with several initiatives, including helping employees get to and from work with as little air pollution as possible. These efforts were honored recently with the Outstanding Partner Involvement Award from Air North Texas, the regional clean-air campaign through the North Central Texas Council of Governments.…
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