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May 13, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker The gradual rollback of COVID-19 social-distancing guidelines in Texas and across the U.S. has many vulnerable populations, including adults 65 and over and those with underlying health conditions, asking questions. “Older adults and those managing chronic medical conditions may experience challenges navigating the many recent changes in our healthcare system in response…
May 11, 2020 • COVID-19, Family Medicine, Public Health, School of Public Health, UNT Texas Center for Performing Arts Health
By Jan Jarvis After playing musical instruments during the school year, it is time for students to return the rental equipment, a task that takes on new meaning during the pandemic. At a time when social distancing is required and hygiene is a top concern, how do middle and high school students properly clean their…
May 6, 2020 • COVID-19, TCOM
By Steven Bartolotta Being healthy is very much a natural instinct, but it’s something people are craving more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. So Dr. Michael Smith, TCOM’s Year 1 Director of Curriculum, has been sprinkling ideas throughout the calendar year to the Class of 2023 about exercise and good healthy habits. He was…
May 6, 2020 • College of Pharmacy, COVID-19
Compiled by Crystal Howell, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacotherapy, UNT System College of Pharmacy MYTH 1: If I don’t have a fever, I don’t have COVID-19. A fever is roughly 100.4° F sustained over an hour, or greater than 100.9° F. Patients who are found to have SARS-CoV-2, which causes coronavirus disease 2019…
May 1, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker Family grocery shopping is a different adventure when your mom is a public health epidemiologist called “Dr. Microbe” by her friends and colleagues. When her daughter was very young, Dr. Diana Cervantes, Director of the MPH Epidemiology program at the HSC School of Public Health, would play a little game of “let’s…
May 1, 2020 • COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic requires those invested in the community’s well-being to react with leadership, teamwork and innovation. The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is on the front lines of that response. Since the crisis gripped Texas, HSC faculty and students have operated COVID-19 test sites that have tested hundreds of…
April 30, 2020 • COVID-19, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis Dr. Richard Loew was volunteering at a medical clinic in the Bahamas in late March when someone handed him a phone. “I pulled down my mask to answer it,”’ he said. “In that moment, I was exposed.” Five days later, the 1986 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine alumnus tested positive for COVID-19. He…
April 30, 2020 • College of Pharmacy, COVID-19, Pharmacy
By Diane Smith Managing medicines, counseling patients, giving flu shots and checking glucose is the everyday work of pharmacists. But as the nation fights coronavirus, the work of these healthcare professionals has been expanded by the federal government to include COVID-19 testing. It’s a move that makes sense to pharmacy experts. “This is another moment…
April 28, 2020 • College of Pharmacy, COVID-19
By Diane Smith COVID-19 has moved across the globe depleting communities of resources needed to fight its spread – from masks to drugs to the solution used in testing kits to transport specimens to laboratories. But now, a team of experts at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, has stepped…
April 24, 2020 • COVID-19
Free community COVID-19 testing sites for qualifying individuals are opening in the Fort Worth area through partnerships with the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County Public Health, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Community testing sites will be opening across Tarrant County starting Friday, April…
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