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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.
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 ear experts recommend exams before buying OTC hearing aids: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/october-otc-hearing-aids.html
Adults with mild to moderate hearing loss who are considering buying hearing aids when they become available over the counter (OTC) later this month should first be examined by an audiologist and physician to determine if the devices will help them, UT Southwestern hearing specialists suggest.
Key protein behind necroptotic cell death could drive new treatment strategies: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-key-protein-necroptotic-cell-death.html
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a form of inflammatory programmed cell death called necroptosis.
Stiffer colon could signal risk of early-onset colorectal cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-stiffer-intestines-early-onset-colorectal-cancer.html
Increased stiffness of the intestines, spurred by chronic inflammation, may encourage the development and progression of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC), a study co-led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.
A step closer to eradicating malaria - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/a-step-closer-to-eradicating-malaria.html
Strategies that treat households in the broad vicinity of a recent malaria case with anti-malarial drugs, insecticides, or both could significantly reduce malaria in low-transmission settings.
FDA-approved drugs could help fight COVID-19 - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/fda-approved-drugs-could-help-fight-covid19.html
Drugs that are already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could hold promise in fighting the new infection known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
Boosting the immune system's appetite for cancer - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/boosting-the-immune-systems-appetite-for-cancer.html
A combination of immunotherapy agents that encourages some immune cells to eat cancer cells and alert others to attack tumors put mice with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma into long-term remission
Drug combination could eliminate side effects of once-popular diabetes treatment: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/drug-combination-could-eliminate-diabetes-treatment-side-effects.html
Study shows how an effective but largely abandoned treatment for Type 2 diabetes could be used again in combination with another drug to eliminate problematic side effects.