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UTSW certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/may-utsw-certified-ccc.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® as a UT that represents the highest standard in cardiovascular care.
For older adults, hearing loss and falls go hand in hand : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/july-hearing-loss-and-falls.html
More than 1 in 3 Americans over age 65 will fall each year, according to the National Institute on Aging. In addition, approximately 1 in 3 individuals between 65 and 74 has hearing loss.
Drug shows promise in overcoming endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-endocrine-therapy-resist.html
For patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, development of the so-called Y537S mutation signals that their disease has taken an aggressive course and may become resistant to endocrine therapy.
Breast cancer drug benefits broader group of patients, trial shows: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-breast-cancer-drug.html
A drug approved to treat breast cancer patients with mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes may also benefit people who have other genetic mutations.
Disease control, safe medications critical to pregnancies for women with rheumatic disease: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/july-women-with-rheumatic-disease.html
Pregnant women with active rheumatic disease carry a higher risk of adverse outcomes than the general population including hypertension, preeclampsia, higher cesarean section rate, small for gestational aged infants, preterm delivery, and fetal loss.
UTSW optometrist offers optimum care guidelines for contact lens users: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-optimum-care-guidelines.html
A recent viral video showing a California ophthalmologist removing 23 contact lenses from an elderly patient’s eye has drawn attention to the importance of properly using contact lenses to ensure the health of your eyes.
UT Southwestern study highlights racial bias factors in physician assistant training: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-racial-bias-factors.html
Physician assistant (PA) programs need to actively engage Black/African American students to help address issues of systemic racism, according to a new study.
Preventing “identity theft” in prostate cancer cells re-sensitizes them to therapy: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-prostate-cancer-cells.html
UTSW study suggests combination therapy might help prostate cancer patients overcome resistance to current treatments.
UT Southwestern ranked No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth by U.S. News & World Report, adding to multiple recognitions in 2019, adding to multiple recognitions in 2018: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/usnwr-best-hospital-again.html
For a third consecutive year, UT Southwestern Medical Center is the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth and No. 2 in Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals listings released today.
Laser procedure offers advantages for rare pediatric epilepsy surgery : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/rare-pediatric-epilepsy-surgery.html
Using a laser for a rare brain surgery to treat drop seizures, which cause a child with epilepsy to suddenly fall, holds some advantages over a traditional open craniotomy