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(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) 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.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a major pathogen has led to more complications and longer hospital stays for children with acute bone infections, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Rejuvenating newly identified fat compartments in the facial cheeks can help reduce the hollowed look of the face as it ages, according to new research by plastic surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) New research at UT Southwestern Medical Center may explain why some people who are stressed or depressed overeat.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons have completed the first single-incision Lap-Band weight-loss surgery in Texas.