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About 1.25 million Americans currently live with Type 1 diabetes, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but modern medicine has yet to provide a definitive treatment for the disease. 

The new department aims to provide an academic home for clinical and nonclinical social workers, according to Barbara Jones, social work professor and chair of the new department. 

More than 100 linguistics academics attended the 18th Texas Linguistics Society Conference held this weekend in Patton Hall’s Glickman Conference Center. 

The field of health care experiences constant growth and development, with new technologies and procedures constantly being added to the field, and doctors must change with it.

A new prescription flu drug, Xofluza, created with research done 40 years ago by Robert Krug, professor emeritus of molecular biosciences, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration and will be available across the U.S. in the coming weeks. 

The Healthier Texas Summit, a conference for health professionals to discuss solutions to healthcare problems affecting people all over the state hosted industry leaders, public policy advocates and health professionals  at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on Oct. 25 and 26 to address pressing issues such as obesity, mental health and electronic cigarettes.

This week, two UT faculty were recognized by the National Academy of Medicine.

Moriba Jah, an associate professor in UT’s aerospace engineering department, has a plan to keep spacecrafts away from space junk and is working on an initiative to eventually clean it up.