Health
December 14, 2023
A Chinese Drug Made of Insects May Help Cardiac Patients
UT Southwestern researchers rigorously tested a traditional herbal medication, yielding surprising results—and inviting plentiful skepticism.
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Health
September 7, 2023
Healthy Eating May Turn Your Gut Bacteria Into Cancer-Fighting Heroes
Recent research out of Dallas and Houston highlights the “science-fictionlike” power of your body’s microbiome—and a high-fiber diet.
Health
February 24, 2023
Why Doctors Aren’t Taught Much About Nutrition
A UT Southwestern program highlights how physicians can and should be better trained to discuss healthy eating with their patients.
Health
October 13, 2021
A Dallas Startup Aims to Build a Big Business—and Transform Lives—by Curing Rare Diseases
Taysha hopes to commercialize UT Southwestern’s groundbreaking gene therapies to benefit its shareholders—and desperately ill children.
Health
December 18, 2020
Why Alzheimer’s Sufferers Seem Lost in Time and Place
New neuroscience research at UT Southwestern in Dallas unlocks mysteries of how our memories work.
Health
July 23, 2019
UT Southwestern’s Cutting-Edge Battle Against Rare, Fatal Childhood Diseases
With a new gene therapy center almost completed, the medical center is providing hope for families who previously had little.
Health
January 1, 1997
So Much to Learn, So Little Time
Today students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are expected to master more hard-core science than ever before. Yet after graduation, they’ll have to keep studying, and be counselors and business experts too. A hard look at the way we teach our doctors—and why it has had to change.