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Dallas study finds expectant women in areas with worse health disparities have greater risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/worse-health-disparities.html
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studied outcomes for young women at a county hospital and found that while 97% of them accessed prenatal care, those with greater social needs were associated with adverse outcomes both during pregnancy and during the early weeks of their babies’ lives
Scientists find first in human evidence of how memories form: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/how-memories-form.html
UT Southwestern researchers have identified the characteristics of more than 100 memory-sensitive neurons that play a central role in how memories are recalled in the brain.
UTSW among top three companies in the nation for new graduates: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/forbes-new-graduates.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center ranked No. 3 in the nation on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers For New Graduates, placing it in the top 1 percent, and highest among academic medical centers.
Stomach issues, history of substance abuse found in teen vaping study: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/teen-vaping-study.html
A study of teens diagnosed with the vaping-linked respiratory disease EVALI revealed that most also had gastrointestinal symptoms and a history of psychosocial factors, including substance abuse.
QI study demonstrates better outcomes for NICU infants with optimized use of CPAP and surfactant: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/nicu-infants.html
A study conducted at Parkland Health and Hospital System by neonatologists from UT Southwestern Medical Center showed that optimizing the use of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP – the same method used to treat patients with sleep apnea – decreased the need for mechanical ventilation in
Intervention for patients hospitalized with HIV improved reengagement and outcomes of care: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/hiv-outcomes.html
Providing multidisciplinary team consults for HIV patients while they are hospitalized to help address social and medical barriers reduces future infection rates and boosts participation in follow-up care, results from a study on how to reengage patients show.
UTSW pharmacologists identify potential cure for tropical parasitic disease found in soil : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/tropical-parasitic-disease.html
Combining two agents to block a parasitic worm’s life cycle boosted survival from a potentially deadly tropical disease to 85% in animal models, far better than either treatment alone.
HHMI Investigator/NAS member Dr. Beth Levine<br / >Director of UT Southwestern Center for Autophagy Research: 1960-2020: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/beth-levine.html
Dr. Beth Levine, UT Southwestern Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, Director of the Center for Autophagy Research, and holder of the Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, died Sunday after a battle with breast cancer.
New gene editing strategies developed for Duchenne muscular dystrophy : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/duchenne-muscular-dystrophy.html
UT Southwestern scientists successfully employed a new type of gene therapy to treat mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
Increasing the immune system’s appetite for cancer protectors: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/cancer-protectors.html
A two-arm molecule can effectively deplete cancer-protecting cells inside tumors, allowing the immune system to fight off tumors without becoming overactive.