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Education level, social media skills linked to cancer fatalism: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/july-education-social-media-cancer.html
More educated patients who are skilled at finding reliable information through social media don’t always see cancer as fatal while those with less schooling and social media awareness hold more fatalistic beliefs about the disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found.
Studies identify lipids necessary for immune molecule activation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/feb-lipids-immune-molecule-activation.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known as stimulator of interferon genes (STING) to launch an immune response in the human body.
Heat boosts antibiotics’ effectiveness against prosthetic infections: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/march-heat-boosts-antibiotics-prosthetic-infections.html
Heat generated by alternating magnetic fields (AMF) helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found.
The secret lives of bacteria: How they evade viral attack : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/aug-bacteria-evad-viral-attack.html
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified more than 200 strategies bacteria use to avoid viral infection. Their findings, published in Cell Host & Microbe, shed light on a microbial “arms race” that could lead to new approaches to fight infectious bacteria.
Dallas Mavericks and UT Southwestern strengthen strategic partnership : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-dallas-mavericks-utsw-partnership.html
Today the Dallas Mavericks and UT Southwestern Medical Center announced a multiyear expansion of their strategic partnership. UT Southwestern, the team’s Official Health Care Partner since 2019, will now also serve as the Official Team Doctors for the franchise. The UT Southwestern logo will appear
Loss of vitamin C synthesis protects animals from schistosomiasis: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-vitamin-c-synthesis-schistosomiasis.html
Scientists at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C deficiency: protection from a major parasitic disease.
Neuropathic bladder patients face complications after hip surgery : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/jan-neuropathic-bladder-patients-hip-surgery.html
Patients with neuropathic bladder (NB), a condition in which nerve damage affects bladder function, have a significantly higher risk of joint infections, blood clots, and other adverse events after receiving total hip replacement (THR), UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.
UTSW first in Texas to offer novel treatment for rare eye cancer that spreads to the liver : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/jan-novel-treatment-rare-eye-cancer.html
A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center this week became the first in Texas and neighboring states to successfully perform a novel procedure to deliver whole-liver chemotherapy to treat metastatic uveal melanoma, a rare and deadly eye cancer.
Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-online-discrimination-hispanic-college-students.html
Hispanic college students who encounter racial or ethnic discrimination on social media are more likely to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, according to a study led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
Nanovaccine shows great promise for treating HPV-related cancers: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/nov-nanovaccine-hpv-related-cancers.html
A nanoparticle vaccine designed to fight cancers induced by human papillomavirus (HPV) eradicated tumors in an animal model of late-stage metastatic disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report in a new study published in PNAS. The findings could ultimately lead to a new type of vaccine