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July 10, 2009 • Archive
George Rust, M.D., will discuss real-world research to achieve optimal and equitable health outcomes at the next University of North Texas Health Science Center Distinguished Speaker Series event. Rust is the director of the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. Rust has spent the past 17 years teaching, researching…
July 10, 2009 • Archive
New students at the University of North Texas Health Science Center will put on their white coats for the first time at the annual White Coat Ceremony at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 25, at the Will Rogers Auditorium, 3401 West Lancaster.At the ceremony, 185 incoming Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) students and 56…
July 8, 2009 • Archive
The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners announced this week that The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) Class of 2010 scored the best in the nation on the Level 1 Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX). This is the fourth consecutive year that TCOM has been the top performer in the nation on this…
July 3, 2009 • Archive
Dr. Paul Bowman, chairman and professor of Pediatrics, is leading a collaboration between Cook Children's Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on a pioneering new acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment. For the first time, St. Jude allowed children to participate in the protocol study without being referred to the home base of St. Jude…
July 3, 2009 • Archive
In groundbreaking research, scientists at the UNTHSC Worth have determined that rapid, estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain injury in animals. These finding are now being tested on human trauma patients in North Texas.James Simpkins, Ph.D., UNT Health Science Center chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Jane Wigginton, M.D., Department…
June 16, 2009 • Archive
Female caregivers of African American girls are reluctant to have their children vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new study by the Center for Community Health (CCH) at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas.The HPV Vaccine Acceptability Study discovered a few major themes from its focus groups:Most participants lacked…
June 15, 2009 • Archive
Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The success or failure of any government ... must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing can be more important to a state than its public health: The state's paramount concern should be the health of its people." Since FDR's time, overall health and life expectancy have improved greatly…
June 9, 2009 • Archive
Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Epidemiology, and Brent Sorrells, associate director of entrepreneurship for TECH Fort Worth, were named to Fort Worth Business Press' 2009 40 Under 40 list, featuring 40 Tarrant County business and community leaders under the age of 40. The list was included in the May 25 issue of the…
June 4, 2009 • Archive
Gov. Rick Perry appointed Jennifer Ozan to serve as the student regent for the University of North Texas system. Ozan, of Fort Worth, is a medical student at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) at the UNT Health Science Center. She is student president of the TCOM Class of 2010 and a member of…
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