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(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in mice that the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like behavior.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a potential new way to stop the bacteria that cause gastroenteritis, tularemia and severe diarrhea from making people sick.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Men with signs of benign prostatic hyperplasia can be helped with a daily dose of erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil to relieve associated lower urinary tract symptoms, according to a new study published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology.

Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Northwestern University and Lilly Research Laboratories report on a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of over 1,000 men in 10 countries.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The development and repair of heart tissue and blood vessels is intimately tied to a tiny piece of ribonucleic acid that is found nowhere else in the body, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center gastroenterologists are using a new method to freeze damaged cells in the esophagus, preventing them from turning cancerous.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) One of the reasons people on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly, according to a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons and specialists in diabetes, neurology, pain management and rehabilitation are launching a cutting-edge study of peripheral nerve surgery to alleviate long-standing pain and numbness in patients with diabetic neuropathy.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) An analysis of more than 100 patients has confirmed for the first time that darker-skinned patients benefit as those with lighter skin when given light therapy for morphea and related diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers show.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A protein previously thought to promote colorectal cancer instead suppresses the growth of human cancer cells in culture, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.