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Fort Worth must recapture its entrepreneurial spirit
By Alex Branch Fort Worth must transform itself into a city with an entrepreneurial mindset — how it thinks and operates — to create jobs, increase wealth and solve complex problems in what is now the nation’s 13th-largest city, UNTHSC...
- Education
‘Have a heart’ for rural Texas, practice medicine in small, underserved communities
By Diane Smith Rural Texas, with its 3 million-plus people and stretches of wide open space, is the setting for a healthcare crisis characterized by hospital closures, OB deserts and a lack of doctors. It’s a healthcare plight receiving in-depth...
- Education
Not just counting pills
By Diane Smith Virginia Lee doesn’t want to get the flu. The 79-year-old Benbrook resident recently arrived at her neighborhood pharmacy looking for a flu shot. “I’m over 65,” Lee said. “I’m also almost 80. It’s prevention.” Lee was among...
- Education
‘Circle of life’ reunites PA student with her delivery doctor
By Diane Smith Lindsey Graff was delivered into the world 24 years ago after her mother experienced a high-risk pregnancy that included strict bedrest. Marco Uribe, MD, an obstetrician in Austin, made sure Lindsey Graff’s birth was successful. “He was...
- Our People
UNTHSC celebrates veteran students for ‘a life of service’
By Diane Smith Marine sniper and doctor don’t appear to be similar careers, but former U.S. Marine Sgt. Jonathan Sweeny sees two jobs that both serve to protect. A sniper’s work includes keeping watch from distant, concealed positions over both...
- Community
Plan to end new HIV infections nationwide includes focus on Tarrant County
By Diane Smith One day soon, public buses and billboards across Fort Worth and Tarrant County could read: “Did you get your PrEP?” It’s a public health message intended to get more people who are diagnosed with HIV on life-saving...
- Community
TESSA program receives funding to expand domestic violence support services
By Sally Crocker Across the U.S. and at home in North Texas, the rates of domestic violence and abuse are as steady as the beat of a heart, the tick of a clock. Every minute across the country, approximately 20...
- Community
Sparkyard web platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses launches
By Alex Branch UNT Health Science Center President Dr. Michael R. Williams today announced the creation of Sparkyard, an innovative new web platform powered by SourceLink®, that connects expert service providers to Fort Worth’s fast-growing business community. Sparkyard, a free...
- Research
Researchers help parents talk with kids about social media and drinking
By Sally Crocker Parents can be one of the best deterrents to underage drinking by having knowledge of and talking to their kids about alcohol content presented on social networking sites, say two UNT Health Science Center public health researchers....
- Our People
GME Program Coordinator helps young doctors in residencies
By Steven Bartolotta When Aurea Baez-Martinez and her husband arrived in the United States with their daughter in January 2017, they had nothing but each other, a few clothes and a couple of toys for the little girl. It was...
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