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  • Community
| June 29, 2016

Health Science Center to close July 4 for Independence Day observance

  The UNT Health Science Center, all clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians, and the Fitness Center will be closed on Monday, July 4, 2016, for the Independence Day holiday. The Lewis Library will have abbreviated hours on July 1,...

Lisa Nash
  • Education
| June 27, 2016

Training doctors for small-town Texas

By Jan Jarvis Having grown up in Brock, Texas, population 80, Dr. Lisa Nash knows how tough the path is to becoming a physician – especially for students from rural communities. “I grew up...

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Students
  • Education
| June 24, 2016

Understanding addiction

By Jan Jarvis   Mir Ali is quick to acknowledge that asking patients personal questions about their alcohol or drug use can be tough. But after spending a week at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the third-year student in the...

Students in SIM lab at Camp Cardiac
  • Education
| June 21, 2016

Hands-on lessons in health care

By Jan Jarvis   After breaking a few teeth and struggling to get the tongue out of the way, Pritul Sarker, 15, successfully intubated his first patient. “It’s in the esophagus – oh, oh, oh!” the Canterbury Episcopal School student...

Brandy Roane
  • Research
| June 15, 2016

Video gamers delay bedtime for playtime

By Jan Jarvis   Video gamers staying up late to save the world as the latest action hero are losing nearly half-a-night of sleep on average, according to a new study from UNT Health Science Center’s Sleep Research Lab. Gamers...

Liam O’Neill
  • Research
| June 14, 2016

New study finds patient privacy risks in sharing research data

By Sally Crocker   In publishing new studies, health care researchers take care to remove identifiable patient information when sharing their data. But a UNT Health Science Center public health professor has found that despite such precautionary measures, often required...

Dr. Tina Machu, Dr. Katura Bullock, Dr. Andrew J. Weis, Dr. Myron Jacobson.
  • Education
| June 13, 2016

New awards honor outstanding junior faculty, student in College of

  New awards have been established in the UNT System College of to honor an outstanding junior faculty member and an outstanding student. The awards are privately funded by Andrew J. Weis, PharmD, a senior executive with Cumberland Pharmaceuticals...

SPH students poster winners
  • Education
| June 10, 2016

Two SPH students receive poster honors at international competition

Two UNTHSC public health students won Best Student Poster awards at the 2016 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, recently held in Baltimore. The international conference is held annually for professionals in industrial hygiene and other occupational and environmental health...

Tick lab researcher
  • Research
| June 9, 2016

Testing ticks by the hundreds

By Jan Jarvis   When it gets hot and muggy, ticks by the hundreds show up at UNT Health Science Center. Fortunately they are all dead. At the Tick-Borne Disease Research Laboratory, the small arachnids are analyzed and tested with...

Michael McAfee
  • On Campus
| June 7, 2016

Helping children from cradle to career

By Alex Branch Children born into poverty need support systems that extend from the prenatal stage into young adulthood in order to live the most successful lives possible, Michael McAfee, EdD, MPA, said. But...