University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Not So Fast: Morning News Op-Ed Calls for More Aerial Mosquito Spraying, but There Are Better Ways to Fight West Nile

On the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News this morning, two local epidemiologists with national/international reputations weigh in for more aerial spraying to combat West Nile disease. Robert Haley, the Gulf War Syndrome expert, and James Luby, an expert on St. Louis encephalitis at UT Southweste ... More >>

New York Magazine Fawns Over the Manliness of Dallas' "Man's-Man Mayor," Mike Rawlings

Mayor Mike Rawlings' recently launched crusade against domestic violence has been earning praise from local media since it was announced it a couple of months ago. Now, after traveling to the Big Apple to speak on the issue alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Michael Bolton, he's gathering attenti ... More >>

The New Korean Fusion

Bulgogi meets tacos, and nachos, and hot dogs, and more.

UTSW Research: Mice Predict Spread of Skin Cancer in Humans

When Dr. Sean Morrison and a handful of researchers at UT Southwestern placed two lists side by side, it was as if the air had been pulled from the room. On one list were patients being treated for melanoma -- skin cancer -- and patients who had died from it. On the other list were mice who had been ... More >>

Top Scientists Are Fleeing Rick Perry's "Politically Driven" Cancer-Fighting Program

When it comes to funding cancer research, no entity other than the federal National Institutes of Health draws from a deeper well than the The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Since the taxpayer-funded agency's creation in 2007, backed by Governor Rick Perry and Lance Armstrong, it ... More >>

Dallas Is Having Its Worst West Nile Season Ever. So, Yes, You Can Start Worrying Now.

I'm not, by nature, someone who spends much time worrying. I assume, more or less automatically, that I'm not going to contract that horrible disease, that ominous-looking strangers probably won't murder me, that there will be time to swerve when that 18-wheeler drifts into my lane. My wife says I w ... More >>

Associated Press Says Fracking Debate Based on Bad Science. What Science?

The Associated Press has news for the people who live above the shale formations experts say have transformed America's energy terrain: Critics of the gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing are as guilty of hyperbole, or downright dishonesty, as the industry's most ardent defenders. T ... More >>

Say Farewell to John Jay Shannon, Parkland's Chief Medical Officer

Update at 1:29 p.m.:Dr. Shannon's email announcing his resignation, as well as board chair Donna Branson's responses to my questions, are below. Original post: Skip over to Parkland's website and scroll through the roster of senior executives and you'll notice it hasn't been updated in a while. But ... More >>

Firestone And Robertson on Distilling Bourbon and Whiskey in Fort Worth

Surely it's difficult to convince your spouse that it's a good idea to quit your day job to distill whiskey. Considering that's exactly what Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson did, they must be really good talkers. In a salvaged Prohibition-era warehouse south of downtown Fort Worth, they're filli ... More >>

UT Southwestern Researchers Identify Receptor Compound That May Yield New Leukemia Treatment

The ability of a leukemic cell to remain in an immature state, capable of relentlessly propagating, has remained one of the vexing obstacles to the effective treatment of leukemia, particularly acute myeloid leukemia. Rather than maturing, or differentiating, inside the blood-cell forming kitchen o ... More >>

The Ugly Truth Behind the Parkland Story: We Hate Poor People

Connecting some dots in today's newspapers: Apparently the real story in America today is that we despise the poor and consider them to be less than human pieces of shit, while we absolutely worship money and are crack-addicted to personal luxury. Maybe the day's worst story anywhere in America abo ... More >>

The New Yorker's Amazing Tale, Beautifully Told, of How Dallas Wiens Got His New Face

​The latest issue of The New Yorker features the extraordinary telling of a tale with which you're perhaps quite familiar by now: how doctors gave a man from Fort Worth, Dallas Wiens, a new face. Alas, all that is available for now is the abstract accompanying Raffi Khatchadourian's story, which b ... More >>

UT Southwestern Docs May Have Found the Pathway to Revolutionary Cancer Treatment

Researchers at UT Southwestern published a study in the journal Nature Sunday identifying a cancer-specific metabolic pathway that fuels only the growth of certain kinds of kidney and adrenal tumors. This is a pretty remarkable finding, chiefly because if you can halt that specific metabolic process ... More >>

Catching Up With That Fascinating Federal Case Involving Wendy Reves's Son and the DMA

​Every week I get two, three emails asking: What's up with the federal lawsuit over The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art? You remember the one: Wendy Reves's son Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. is suing the Dallas Museum of Art, claiming they done took his mama's Gauguins, Mo ... More >>

Mother of Highland Park Middle School Student Sues Writer's Folks Over "Defamatory" Novel

​A curious tale involving Highland Park Middle School, two UT Southwestern docs, a 362-page novel and a whole bunch of underage kids allegedly depicted as doing things they shouldn't oughta just hit Courthouse News. Read it for yourself. Long story short: The mother of an unnamed HPMS student (ide ... More >>

Gulf War Syndrome Is Brain Damage Caused By Nerve Gas, Not Psychological Issues, UT Southwestern Study Proves

​There's no denying it now: Gulf War Syndrome, characterized by memory loss, lack of concentration, neuropathic pain and depression, is a physiological illness, not a psychological one. A UT Southwestern study, published in the journal Radiology, used a specialized MRI that specifically measu ... More >>

Dallas Museum of Art, Kern Wildenthal File Motions to Dismiss Suit Over Reves Estate

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​It's been three long months since Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. filed his federal suit, so perhaps you've forgotten the details. Long story short: Schroeder -- the sole son of Marshall, Texas's own Wendy Russell Reves -- claim ... More >>

The Battle Between Parkland and Dallas News Rages On In Missive From Hospital CEO

Ron Anderson​Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred c ... More >>

Annette Simmons Donates $1 Mil in Stock to Keep Mercy Ships Floating Off Coast of Africa

Mercy Ships​Since 1978, Mercy Ships has been sending hospital boats, for lack of a better term, to impoverished and beleaguered countries to tend to the "forgotten poor"; at this very moment, matter of fact, the African Mercy is perched off the shores of Togo in West Africa, a country ranked near ... More >>

Tipsy Turvy: Yes, You Can Build Alcohol Tolerance--But At What Price?

That's not me--I wasn't that rousing, but I was pretty sober.​After wrapping up "Purple Rain" by Prince in the main karaoke room at the office holiday party last night, I turned to a coworker's wife, who was sharing the stage with me, and said that was so much fun I was going to go sing it i ... More >>

UT Southwestern Professor to Replace Bane of Sharon Boyd's Existence on Plan Commission

UT SouthwesternDr. Bill PetersonCouncil member Angela Hunt has nominated Dr. Bill Peterson, a professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, to replace term-limited Neil Emmons on the city plan commission. Peterson's term as Hunt's appointee to the city's senior affairs commission exp ... More >>

First Look: Thai2Go

A new Asian fast food joint is rarely big news, but in the case of three-week-old Thai2Go, a couple of key details set it apart from the crowd.For starters, Thai2Go is located in the new Cityville development on Medical District Drive. This heavily-trafficked cross street connecting Harry Hines Bo ... More >>

UTSW and SMU Team Up to Gather Evidence of Gulf War Syndrome

Dr. Robert Haley Ten years ago in the paper version of Unfair Park, former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman chronicled in great detail Dr. Robert Haley's war with the naysayers over Gulf War Syndrome, which Haley said existed and government officials said was nothing but a figment of sufferers' imaginat ... More >>

Not High on Prometa|Blaming the Wrong Screwups

Fighting Fire With Fire

Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

Things More Interesting Than The Next Food Network Star: Kidney Stones, Greggo and Jessica Simpson!

Youth Risk Survey Has Some Good News -- And, For Latinos, Some Bad News

Dallas-Based Creationists Turning Texas Into a "Laughingstock"

Dallas Flashes Back to 1997

A Trinity River vote, the return of the Citizens Council, a corruption case at City Hall. Buzz is confused. Was this 2007 or 1997?

Yule Love this News Round-Up

In the Line of Fire

A Troubling Video Sweeping the Nation

Skin-Deep

If you have the money, life as a MILF can be purchased at the mall

Poor People Make Excellent Guinea Pigs

Flaming Lips

All In

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Mo' Bull

Check out the rockin' broncs

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Genetic Criminals

A DNA researcher tracks down the causes of hereditary illnesses

Ten Things Bob Mong Should and Shouldn't Do

A few tips for a better DMN

Tuba Wanted

The Polyphonic Spree looking to add a new member to its cast

White Boys and Booze

Forget Hispanics and tequila. What we're really worried about are those darn homosocials.

More, Please

Quick, someone buy the county's juvenile authorities a copy of Oliver Twist

Unraveling a mystery

Dallas-based researchers at last win some respect for their work on Gulf War Syndrome

Double divas

Bottoms up!

The war over Gulf War Syndrome

Dallas doctors believe they've solved the mystery of sick veterans, but find themselves in "a bloody scientific war" where they are branded charlatans

Trendy health

The booming field of alternative medicine goes under the microscope in Dallas

Presumed horizontal

Thief uses bed rest study to duck trial