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TCOM Class of 2023 is dashing to revive an old tradition
By Steven Bartolotta Being healthy is very much a natural instinct, but it’s something people are craving more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. So Dr. Michael Smith, TCOM’s Year 1 Director of Curriculum, has been sprinkling ideas throughout the...
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HSC System College of examines 4 COVID-19 myths
Compiled by Crystal Howell, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacotherapy, UNT System College of MYTH 1: If I don’t have a fever, I don’t have COVID-19. A fever is roughly 100.4° F sustained over an hour, or greater...
- Our People
New MHA Director joins HSC at critical time in healthcare leadership
By Sally Crocker At 17, Stephan Davis, DNP, MHSA, FACHE, left St. Louis for New York City to study jazz performance. It wasn’t long, though, before he was so moved by the people and needs he encountered there that his...
- Our People
50 Heroes: Dr. James Caffrey
Recognized for his outstanding contributions to research in integrative physiology, Dr. James Caffrey also will be remembered for the discoveries he made in others. Dr. Caffrey, who joined UNTHSC in 1977 and earned accolades in the laboratory and classroom, also...
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Advice for helping kids understand their role in COVID-19 prevention
By Sally Crocker Family grocery shopping is a different adventure when your mom is a public health epidemiologist called “Dr. Microbe” by her friends and colleagues....
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HSC Fort Worth’s response to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic requires those invested in the community’s well-being to react with leadership, teamwork and innovation. The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is on the front lines of that response. Since the crisis gripped...
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TCOM alum contracts COVID-19 while doing volunteer work
By Jan Jarvis Dr. Richard Loew was volunteering at a medical clinic in the Bahamas in late March when someone handed him a phone. “I pulled down my mask to answer it,”’ he said....
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Pharmacists are fighting on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Diane Smith Managing medicines, counseling patients, giving flu shots and checking glucose is the everyday work of pharmacists. But as the nation fights coronavirus, the work of these healthcare professionals has been expanded by the federal government to include...
- Community
HSC High School Art Show goes virtual this year
Since 1985, the HSC High School Art show has showcased young people’s work in media from photography to painting to computer art, and several in between. The show, usually on view each spring in the EAD Atrium Gallery, is an...
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College of at HSC making solution for COVID-19 testing kits
By Diane Smith COVID-19 has moved across the globe depleting communities of resources needed to fight its spread – from masks to drugs to the solution used in testing kits to transport specimens to laboratories. But now, a team of...
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