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NIH awards UT Southwestern $28.6 million grant
UT Southwestern has received a new $28.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote rapid translation of basic laboratory findings into patient care. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 25, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

National study to determine if vitamin D prevents diabetes
Researchers are seeking 150 to 200 adults to take part in the local arm of a major national clinical trial that will investigate whether vitamin D helps prevent or delay development of type 2 diabetes. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 21, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Promising new approach to treating drug-resistant infections
A new type of antibiotic called a PPMO, which works by blocking genes essential for bacterial reproduction, successfully killed a multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings, researchers report. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 21, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Promising new approach to drug - resistant infections
A new type of antibiotic called a PPMO, which works by blocking genes essential for bacterial reproduction, successfully killed a multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings, researchers report. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 16, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Overexpressed protein the culprit in certain thyroid cancers
A specific protein once thought to exist only in the brain may play a crucial role in a deadly form of thyroid cancer, as well as other cancers, and provide a fresh target for researchers seeking ways to stop its progression. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 14, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Südhof wins Nobel Prize for two decades of work at UTSW
Dr. Thomas C. Südhof, adjunct professor of neuroscience and former chairman of the department at UT Southwestern, was one of three scientists awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 12, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Acclaimed surgical oncologist to head Surgery Department
Dr. Michael Choti, an internationally acclaimed surgical oncologist, has joined UT Southwestern as Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, opening in 2014. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 3, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Less can be more when removing lymph nodes during breast cancer surgery
A conservative approach to removing lymph nodes is associated with less harm for breast cancer patients and often yields the same results as more radical procedures. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - October 1, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Study unlocks origin of brown fat cells important in weight maintenance
In ongoing research aimed at battling obesity, researchers have deciphered how new fat cells are formed in energy-storing fat pads. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 28, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Cellular switch controls growth of brain tumor cells
Researchers at UT Southwestern have identified a cellular switch that potentially can be turned off and on to slow down, and eventually inhibit the growth of the most commonly diagnosed and aggressive malignant brain tumor. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 24, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Interference with cellular recycling leads to cancer growth, chemotherapy resistance
Overactivity of a protein that normally cues cells to divide sabotages the body’s natural cellular recycling process, leading to heightened cancer growth and chemotherapy resistance, researchers have found. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - September 19, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Alzheimer's forum speaker says treatment is key to prevention
For years, clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease unsuccessfully focused on people with dementia – a stage in the disease now considered by physicians to be too late to represent an ideal time for treatment. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - August 29, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Alzheimer's forum speaker says treatment key is prevention
For years, clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease unsuccessfully focused on people with dementia – a stage in the disease now considered by physicians to be too late to represent an ideal time for treatment. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - August 24, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Tumor measurements predict survival in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
A new study, however, led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has shown that even in advanced stages total tumor size can have a major impact on survival. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - August 21, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Specialists tracking how brain reacts to UV light in tanning study
Neuroimaging specialists at UT Southwestern are launching the first clinical trial involving frequent and infrequent tanners designed to identify whether UV light triggers the brain’s pleasure sensors. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News - August 12, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news