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TCOM student, SBS graduate and TCOM alum go the extra mile for a man who’s...

Lindsey Hudson is a mother of three beginning medical school, Scott Hudson is 72 years old and legally blind, but the two have become forever linked and tethered, in more ways than one could possibly imagine. Lindsey, a 2024 graduate of the School of Biomedical Sciences Medical Science program at The University of North Texas…
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HSC pro bono physical therapy program offers hope

For 70-year-old Beverly Rozanski, the journey to improved health has been long and challenging. Raised in Michigan, Rozanski spent her childhood and early adult years struggling with physical challenges that made even the simplest tasks seem insurmountable. However, her discovery of a pro bono physical therapy program through The University of North Texas Health Science…
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TCOM’s Owen Saenz selected for the prestigious ElevateMeD scholarship program

Paying it forward, sacrificing and serving has been at the core of who and what Owen Saenz is, now, it’s paying him back. The rising fourth-year student at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth was selected for the ElevateMeD scholarship program. Saenz, who…
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Physical therapy students to wed after commencement

While post-commencement life can be uncertain for many graduating college students, Madelyn Di Orio and Kellan Barry made big plans before this school year ever began. The third-year physical therapy students in The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s School of Health Professions will tie the knot in June. The pair met as freshman…
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From humble beginnings to great endings, how this TCOM graduate defied all odds

Lamont, California, a simple location referred to only as a census-designated place in Kern County in the south-central portion of the state, is where Diana Garcia Garcia grew up with her family, watching them work each day in the lush orange and grape fields. She visited them during lunch hours and saw the hard work…
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Blood Donation web
  • Community
| May 30, 2014

Young blood donors miss out on important health information

Donating blood is a great way to help others, but few young donors realize it is also an opportunity to protect their own health. Only 11 percent of donors ages 16 to 19 go online to check their blood values...

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  • Research
| May 29, 2014

Discovery could lead to better treatments for glaucoma

For decades scientists have tried to understand how glaucoma develops in the eye.  Now a team of UNT Health Science Center researchers have identified a signaling pathway that appears to play a major part in the development of the incurable...

Laszlo Prokai
  • Research
| May 29, 2014

Protein may provide effective way to study nitroxidative stress

  Laszlo Prokai, PhD, DSc Katalin Prokai-Tatrai, PhD A new protocol that helps scientists identify a protein that is changed by nitroxidated stress in the body has been developed by UNT Health Science Center researchers. Previously there was no effective...

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  • Education
| May 28, 2014

School of Public Health takes global view: India is A€AhAthot

UNT Health Science Center is reaching out worldwide in its student recruiting efforts.  Matt Nolan Adrignola, EdD, MBA, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, recently travelled to India to encourage students to consider a move to Fort Worth...

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  • Research
| May 27, 2014

Eliminating diabetic foot ulcers, one step at a time

Every footstep is a risk for diabetics like Rudolph Blancarte. Because diabetes can cause people to lose sensation in their feet, they often don't feel pain from a developing wound. Something as innocuous as a pebble in their shoe can...

Gerald Korty
  • Education
| May 27, 2014

TCOM students serve Texas on statewide boards

Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS Christopher D. Vera Gov. Rick Perry has appointed two students in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine to the governing boards of statewide institutions. Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS, a TCOM second-year student, will serve as the...

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  • Community
| May 26, 2014

Farmers market returns May 29

The farmers market returns to the Health Science Center campus on Thursday, May 29. A half-dozen vendors will set up shop in a small parking lot near the Camp Bowie Boulevard and Clifton Street intersection (Lot 15 on the campus...

Class of 2013 Spreads
  • Education
| May 25, 2014

TCOM Class of 2014 Residencies

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  • Education
| May 23, 2014

Public health professor awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Saudi Arabia

Susie Ramisetty-Mikler, PhD, MPH, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching-Research Scholarship (2014-15) to spend 10 months at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ramisetty-Mikler, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UNTHSC's School of Public Health, will teach a graduate health...

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  • Community
| May 22, 2014

Pediatrician honored for leadership role in mobile clinic

A Fort Worth newspaper has recognized Christina Robinson, MD, for her leadership role in UNT Health Science Center's effort to provide health care directly to children in Fort Worth's most underserved neighborhoods. The Fort Worth Business Press named the pediatrician...