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  • Education
| March 27, 2019

UTA Research Institute partnering to develop robotic gloves for post-stroke hand rehabilitation

Media Contact: Herb Booth   The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute is making flexible soft robotic gloves that will aid in rehabilitating stroke patients through virtual reality gaming. Combining this glove with the virtual reality gaming to be...

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  • Research
| March 27, 2019

RAD offers students, faculty opportunity to highlight research work

By Jan Jarvis   student Meredith Garrett is excited about presenting a poster for the first time at Research Appreciation Day. “You always get that one question that you didn’t expect,” the first-year pharmacy student said. “So I’m trying...

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  • Research
| March 25, 2019

Study links preventable diabetes hospitalizations to behavioral health

By Sally Crocker A new study by UNTHSC public health researchers points to important information that may help health care providers, policymakers and insurance payers reduce the risk of preventable hospitalizations for diabetes...

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  • Education
| March 21, 2019

students travel to Austin for lesson in advocacy

By Jan Jarvis    Nearly a quarter of UNT System College of students took a day off from their classes to get a lesson in advocacy.  The students joined nearly 600 pharmacy professionals from throughout the state for Pharmacist Day...

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  • Community
| March 20, 2019

Young artists exhibit their work in Atrium Gallery this spring

By Rebecca Najera High school juniors and seniors have the chance to show off their artistic skills at the UNT Health Science Center when the annual High School Art Show opens in the Atrium Gallery April 5. Brock ISD art...

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  • Community
| March 19, 2019

UNTHSC helps United Way of Tarrant County outline future direction

By Sally Crocker A team of UNTHSC researchers has recently completed a comprehensive community assessment for United Way of Tarrant County that will help set the organization’s strategic direction for years to come. Findings from this extensive study, which uncovered some...

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  • Our People
| March 18, 2019

Match Day: A time of hoots, hollers and high fives

By Jan Jarvis   Under soft green lights, Isadora Cabral jumped into the arms of a classmate as soon as she opened her Match Day envelope. “It’s amazing, emotional, so great and exciting,” Cabral said. “I applied to way too...

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  • Research
| March 18, 2019

Twitter posts offer insight into young adult drinking

By Sally Crocker    Young adults’ social media chatter may reveal a lot about drinking behavior and intentions, say two UNTHSC public health researchers.   A new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence by Dr. Dana M. Litt, Dr. Melissa...

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  • Our People
| March 13, 2019

On road to Match Day, couple faced med school and cancer together

By Jan Jarvis   Michael Gabbert was weeks away from starting medical school when he learned that a lump on his throat was malignant.  Diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, he underwent surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Days...

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  • Education
| March 12, 2019

TCOM again leads Texas in producing primary care doctors

By Alex Branch    The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is leading efforts to solve the state’s physician shortage by graduating the most primary care doctors of any medical school in Texas, according to new rankings released Tuesday by U.S....