Promoting Wellness

The Healing Properties of Art

Learn how different art mediums play an active role in health care to help with depression, anxiety, and even cancer.

New Book Details How Drs. Brown and Goldstein Got Their Start at the NIH

After more than 50 years, the enduring impact of a little-known Vietnam-era program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that jumpstarted the careers of four Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including UT Southwestern’s Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, is being revealed in a book.

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Donor Stories

McGuires Create Fund for Palliative Care

Philanthropists June and Peter McGuire have made a generous gift to Southwestern Medical Foundation, creating the June A. and Peter G. McGuire Fund for Palliative Care, in Honor of Steven Leach, M.D. The McGuires are active supporters of Southwestern Medical Foundation and were inspired in making their gift by Dr. Leach’s passion for palliative medicine.

Leading Cancer Care

Culinary Medicine: Supporting Families Impacted by Cancer

Culinary Medicine is a field of research that focuses on the relationship between food, health, and disease prevention. Dr. Keith Argenbright, Director of the Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth, Texas, believes that this worthy research can bring hope to many families who have been impacted by cancer.

Promoting Wellness

Culinary Medicine: Starting the Conversation

A challenge for many of us across every socioeconomic spectrum, whether you are a construction worker, a librarian, or even a dietitian, is the struggle to manage our own day-to-day approach to food.

Promoting Wellness

Culinary Medicine: Through a Med Student’s Eyes

We “know” what foods are good for us and what foods contribute to negative health effects, but making the choice to “eat healthy” sounds like a punishment. How do we change that perception? What is a physician’s role in talking to patients about what they eat?

March 5, 2019

Culinary Medicine: A Fresh Outlook on Food & Medicine

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We are beginning to grasp the impact of food, but we have many questions about how to educate, empower, and drive change in our culture. The powerful role food plays and the universal implication for everyone who eats should drive innovations and research around individual, community, and national solutions.

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March 7, 2018

Peter O’Donnell’s Persistence and the Center for Human Nutrition

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In the early 1980s, Peter O’Donnell Jr. stuck beside his goal to bring the Center to life at UT Southwestern.

November 1, 2017

The Dallas Heart Study Is Complete

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One of UT Southwestern's great research projects, The Dallas Heart Study (DHS), led to the discoveries of major genes and proteins that contribute to heart and metabolic disease.

November 9, 2016

UT Southwestern Geneticist Receives Breakthrough Prize

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UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist Dr. Helen H. Hobbs is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.