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Readmission penalties for safety-net hospitals drop under new rules: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/readmission-penalties.html
Readmission penalties against hospitals providing care to socioeconomically disadvantaged patients have dropped 14 percentage points under new rules adopted in 2019 that more equitably account for low income populations being served.
UT Southwestern review finds hysterectomy can be avoided for common gynecological condition : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/hysterectomy-gynecological-condition.html
Adenomyosis – an abnormal tissue growth into the muscular wall of the uterus that causes painful cramps and heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding – is more common than generally appreciated
Dr. Andrew Ziskind joins Southwestern Health Resources as Senior Executive Officer: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/andrew-ziskind-seo.html
Dr. Andrew Ziskind, a nationally recognized leader of innovative health systems, has been selected as Senior Executive Officer (SEO) for the Southwestern Health Resources Clinically Integrated Network.
UT Southwestern researcher wins NIH Director’s Award to study how DNA’s 3D structure affects health and disease: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/zhou-nih-awards.html
Jian Zhou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in UT Southwestern’s Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use artificial intelligence to investigate the three-dimensional structure of DNA and its impact on health.
Liver cancer patients can be treated for Hep C infection: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/hepatitis-c.html
A large, multi-center study refutes earlier suggestions that antiviral drugs for treating hepatitis C may lead to a higher recurrence of liver cancer.
Edible audibles for the Big Game: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/edible-audibles.html
There are plenty of options for cutting calories as well as substitutes for some of the more high-calorie options.
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.
UT Southwestern Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care partnering on Lone Star Depression Challenge: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/lone-star-depression.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care is collaborating with mental health colleagues across the country to expand detection and treatment for depression and other disorders across Texas as part of the Lone Star Depression Challenge.
UTSW scientists eliminate key Alzheimer’s feature in animal model: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/alzheimers-feature.html
A study by UT Southwestern researchers finds that changing the biochemistry of parts of brain cells abolished the formation of amyloid beta plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
Strict lineage tracing crucial to nerve cell regeneration research, study says: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/strict-lineage-tracing.html
UT Southwestern stem cell scientists find that stringent lineage tracing is crucial for studies of nerve cell regeneration.