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Tickets on sale for Jay Leno’s performance at ‘An Evening with a Legend’
Tickets are now on sale for UNT Health Science Center's annual "An Evening with a Legend" fundraiser, this year featuring Jay Leno, the renowned comedian and 22-year host of "The Tonight Show." The performance benefits the UNT Health Science Center...
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UNT Health Science Center to close for Labor Day
The UNT Health Science Center, including Founders Activity Center, will be closed for Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 1. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians also will be closed Monday in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will...
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Summer research programs inspire students to biomedical careers
Anna Brown was about to abandon her dream of becoming a scientist when the Summer Researcher Internship Program at UNT Health Science Center changed her mind. "I wasn't certain if research was right for me," said the University of Texas...
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Research aimed at improving long-term outlook for stroke patients
The long-term consequences of a stroke often are more severe than the attack itself, a medical reality that researcher Shaohua Yang, PhD, MD, hopes to alter. "A stroke is like an earthquake," said Dr. Yang, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and...
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Camp activities teach teamwork to incoming GSBS students
After a few minutes of twisting, twirling and unlocking limbs, the six students of Team Green credited good communication skills with helping them unwind from a human knot in record time. "It does help you get to know people," incoming...
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A full dose of facts on vaccinations
By Sarah Matches, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics It's become easy for us to forget the horrors of a disease such as polio, which as recently as the 1950s crippled about 35,000 Americans each year. Today, there is no naturally...
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Patient finds his ‘guardian angel’
On the day before Easter, Tom and Pam Kearney arrived in Fort Worth from their home in Michigan feeling anxious and uncertain. An injury to Tom's xiphoid process caused excruciating pain in his chest - and the Kearneys traveled to...
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Electrical stimulation therapy helps gastroparesis patient
Angela Pokluda enjoyed her life as a wife and mother until she began suffering bouts of nausea and couldn't keep food down. "My nausea was so serious it would stop me in my tracks whenever it hit," said Pokluda, who...
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Media spotlight: Missing Persons Lab helps ID teenager who died 73 years ago
DNA experts at UNT Health Science Center announced this week that they had identified the remains of a 14-year-old boy buried more than 70 years ago at a now-closed reform school in Florida.It is one of the oldest DNA associations...
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Research to make early detection of Alzheimer’s disease more accessible
By combining a simple blood test with a cognitive exam and demographics, researchers at UNT Health Science Center were able to accurately detect Alzheimer's disease, even in its very early stages. The research could lead to a rapid, accurate and...
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