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  • Education
| April 17, 2014

Health literacy empowers patients to make own decisions

A sad moment with his ailing father crystalized the value of health literacy for Dr. Michael J. Miller. His father, suffering from Stage 4 heart failure, had exhausted his treatment options and his cardiologist suggested he enroll in a new...

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  • Research
| April 16, 2014

Researchers seek link between HIV/HCV infection and severe liver disease

Persons with both HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) develop liver disease that progresses faster and is more severe than it is in individuals with only one infection. It's not known why co-infection speeds up liver disease, but researchers at UNT...

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  • Education
| April 15, 2014

Chief of Navy Medical Corps to address UNTHSC community

The chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, Rear Adm. Raquel Bono, will address on Wednesday students, faculty and staff at UNT Health Science Center as part of the observance of Dallas-Fort Worth Navy Week. Adm. Bono, who also serves...

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  • Community
| April 15, 2014

Fort Worth celebrates Health Challenge victory over Des Moines

Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price accepted the victor's trophy Tuesday for the city's win over Des Moines, Iowa, in FitWorth's 10-Week Health Challenge, which ended April 4. Doug Reichardt of Iowa's Healthy State Initiative presented the trophy during the City...

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  • Patient Care
| April 14, 2014

Nurse Practitioner Barbara Harty wins excellence in nursing award

Barbara Harty found in geriatrics, the perfect career. "My grandmother helped raise me and I always had a special affection for older people," said Harty, Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Medicine. "I just really like working with them, hearing their...

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  • Patient Care
| April 14, 2014

UNTHSC physicians named 2014 Top Docs

Fort Worth, Texas magazine has honored 25 UNT Health Science Center physicians as "Top Docs." They were selected as a result of surveys of fellow health care providers. They practice in clinics and hospitals across Tarrant County. Those named, and...

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  • Community
| April 11, 2014

Students help connect at-risk women with free mammograms

UNT Health Science Center students are helping connect at-risk women to potentially life-saving breast cancer screenings and prevention information. At a recent event in East Arlington, volunteers signed up women for fully-funded and low-cost mammograms that will be offered May...

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  • Education
  • Patient Care
| April 9, 2014

UNT Health Science Center celebrates National Osteopathic Medicine Week

The UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth is marking National Osteopathic Medicine Week April 13-19. NOM Week brings the osteopathic medical profession together to focus on the common goal of increasing awareness of osteopathic medicine and osteopathic physicians (DOs) in...

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  • Community
| April 8, 2014

Built environment expert featured at 7th Annual North Texas Health Forum

For more than 35 years, Dan Burden, Co-Founder and Director of Innovation and Inspiration for the non-profit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, has traveled the world to make it a healthier place. A nationally recognized authority on walkable, livable, healthy...

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  • Education
| April 3, 2014

Dr. Meharvan ‘Sonny’ Singh named Dean of Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

A UNT Health Science Center researcher recognized internationally for his work on hormones and the aging brain has been named Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Meharvan "Sonny" Singh, PhD, who has served as Interim Dean of the...