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Natural grass may pose greater risk for football concussions: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/aug-natural-grass-football-concussions.html
Young football players who sustained a head-to-ground concussion practicing or playing games on natural grass experienced more symptoms – and significantly higher severity – than those who suffered concussions on artificial turf, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found.
Weekly insulin found safe, effective for Type 2 diabetes: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2023/july-weekly-insulin-found-safe.html
An experimental form of insulin administered just once a week was safe for patients with Type 2 diabetes and helped them maintain healthy blood sugar levels better than insulin injected daily, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
UT Southwestern opens first academic medical center campus for southern Dallas County: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/september-first-academic-medical-center-campus.html
More than 1,000 residents, business owners, and regional leaders gathered Saturday at the community celebration for the opening of UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird, the largest of its regional campuses and the first to bring academic medicine to the booming southern Dallas region.
Machine learning sheds light on gene transcription : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/may-machine-learning-gene-transcription.html
A team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center developed deep learning models to identify a simple set of rules that govern the activity of promoters – regions of DNA that initiate the process by which genes produce proteins.
Obesity drugs help patients lose weight regained years after bariatric surgery : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2023/june-obesity-drugs-bariatric-surgery.html
Anti-obesity medications, including semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), can effectively help patients manage weight regain after bariatric surgery, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.
High-sugar diet can damage the gut, intensifying risk for colitis : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/high-sugar-diet-can-damage-the-gut.html
Mice fed diets high in sugar developed worse colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and researchers examining their large intestines found more of the bacteria that can damage the gut’s protective mucus layer.
When the BumR gives you diarrhea - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/when-the-bumr-gives-you-diarrhea.html
A study from UT Southwestern researchers sheds new light on how the bug that’s the No. 1 cause of bacterial diarrhea finds its way through the human gut.
Targeting protein has potential to treat leukemia, lymphoma: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/aug-targeting-protein-leukemia-lymphoma.html
Targeting a protein called ZFP574 suppressed leukemia in a mouse model of the disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers showed in a new study.
EMS training on key skills improves heart attack survival : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/aug-ems-training-heart-attack-survival.html
Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies that adopt four or more critical best practices have higher rates of survival among cardiac arrest patients than their peers, a nationwide study co-led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher found.
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.