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UTSW nurses improvise, innovate to cope with coronavirus: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/utsw-nurses-improvise.html

As nurses around the world serve on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients, nurses at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified dozens of ways to reduce the risk of exposure and preserve scarce protective resources such as masks and gowns.

UTSW researchers use snake venom to solve structure of muscle protein - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/snake-venom.html

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical center have uncovered the detailed shape of a key protein involved in muscle contraction.

In Memoriam: Dr. Jere Mitchell helped lay foundations of exercise physiology, changed medical practice on bed rest: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/in-memoriam-mitchell.html

Jere Mitchell, M.D., former director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center and an internationally recognized exercise physiologist whose seminal findings on maximal oxygen uptake changed conventional medical practice on bed rest and laid the foundation for central

HER3 gene mutations can worsen tumor growth in breast cancer, study suggests: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/her3-gene-mutations.html

Mutations in a gene related to HER2, a gene frequently implicated in breast cancers and a variety of other malignancies, can amplify activity that spurs tumor growth

UT Southwestern students sponsor April 27th health fair featuring free screenings, immunizations, sports physicals at Rusk Middle School in Dallas: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/health-fair.html

More than 500 UT Southwestern Medical Center students, physicians, and health professionals will team up on Saturday, April 27 for the 15th annual Carnaval de Salud, which provides free health care services to underserved populations in Dallas.

In Memoriam: Jean Wilson, M.D., made scientific discoveries that led to effective prostate treatments, insights into sexual differentiation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/in-memoriam-wilson.html

Jean D. Wilson, M.D., an internationally known endocrinologist whose scientific discoveries led to profound insights into the mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation and led to now widely used treatments for prostate disease, died June 13. He was 88.

Traditional risk factors predict heart disease about as well as sophisticated genetic test, study suggests: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/predicting-heart-disease.html

Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes, and smoking status, are at least as valuable in predicting who will develop coronary heart disease as a sophisticated genetic test that surveys millions of different points in DNA.

Researchers show how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/dna-mutations-cancer.html

Like wrenches made of Legos, SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes tighten or loosen DNA in our cells to control how genes are turned on and made into proteins.

Roughly 6,000 UT Southwestern caregivers receive COVID-19 vaccine: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/caregivers-receive-vaccine.html

Nearly 6,000 front-line health care workers at UT Southwestern have received initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since the Medical Center received its first shipment of 5,850 doses on Dec. 15.

The dangers of hidden fat: Exercise is your best defense against deep abdominal fat: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/abdominal-fat.html

Researchers analyzed two types of interventions – lifestyle modification (exercise) and pharmacological (medicine) – to learn how best to defeat fat lying deep in the belly