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January 30, 2009 • Archive
Students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Science will host an open house for the public, as well as a science fair in conjunction with area high schools, sponsored by the Science Exposition in Research Vocation and Education on Saturday, Feb. 7, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tours of the forensic genetics facility, medical simulation…
January 30, 2009 • Archive
Dr. Michael Forster of the UNT Health Science Center and Dr. Raj Sohal of the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy have discovered that eating less may not be a key to living longer. Their study and others by Health Science Center researchers were recently published in several scientific journals and articles.The Forster-Sohal study…
January 28, 2009 • Archive
UNT Health Science Center and all UNT Health clinics will be closed today due to inclement weather.To find out if the Health Science Center is closed tomorrow, or any day, due to the weather, here are three easy ways to find out, listed below in order of authority. * Call our main phone number -…
January 27, 2009 • Archive
UNT Health Science Center and all UNT Health clinics will close at 3 pm today due to inclement weather.There are several ways to determine if UNTHSC will be closed for inclement weather tomorrow morning:1) Call our main phone number - (817) 735-2000. This is the first and most authoritative source for weather closure information. If…
January 26, 2009 • Archive
President-elect Obama is about to take the reins of the government and officially begin his policy of "Change." A central pledge of his campaign: health care reform. But with the economy mired in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and policy makers focusing on righting the ship, enacting meaningful reform quickly might seem…
January 20, 2009 • Archive
The Fort Worth Business Press highlighted the Primary Care Research Insitutute in its January 19 edition. Drs. Roberto Cardarelli, Joan Carroll and Kathryn Cardarelli at the Health Science Center were quoted.Here's an excerpt from the article written by Elizabeth Bassett, as well a a link: "The heart health of Tarrant County residents is under investigation…
January 16, 2009 • Archive
Harvey Brenner, PhD, professor of social and behavioral sciences, and John Fling, MD, associate professor of allergy and immunology, were both recently quoted in media articles about health.Dr. Brenner commented on suicide rates at times of economic depression in a CNN.com article. "We ordinarily experience much, much higher rates of suicide during times of recession,"…
January 16, 2009 • Archive
Having a personal health care provider increases the rate of colorectal cancer screening, according to a new study by researchers at the UNT Health Science Center.Roberto Cardarelli, DO, MPH, Primary Care Research Institute director, and Jennifer Thomas, MS, examined data on 120,221 patients and found that the likelihood of being screened tripled in patients who…
January 6, 2009 • Archive
The UNT Center for Human Identification's DNA lab, housed at UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, was featured in the January 2009 issue of Popular Science."America is haunted by 100,000 missing persons and 40,000 sets of unidentified missing remains. Only one lab can truly connect the lost and the dead -- and it's revealing…
January 6, 2009 • Archive
Last month, the UNT System Chancellor, UNT System Board of Regents and the UNTHSC President announced a study led by a Study Group to complete a comprehensive and balanced evaluation and consider all major issues related to the possibility of adding a parallel MD degree in addition to continuing and improving the DO degree program…
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