The Real Estate Council seeks an underground light rail downtown, UTSW study shows brain activity differs between obese and leaner women, and the DFW Health Entrepreneur Network event will celebrate the launch of health care entrepreneur website.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit is being urged by The Real Estate Council to put the entirety of its D2 light rail line in downtown Dallas underground. The Dallas Business Journal reported that TREC President and CEO Linda McMahon believes an underground line would make communities better connected and facilitate the ongoing flow of existing street and pedestrian traffic. Find out more here.
Looking for resources to help navigate the health care startup world? Healthentrepreneur.com launched this week to provide mentorship, networking, education, and funding information for both entrepreneurs just starting out in health care and those who’ve spent years in the industry. The DFW Health Entrepreneur Network is planning to celebrate the launch of the website in an event Thursday night featuring speakers discussing the role of banks and lenders in the health care startup scene. Read more about the website and get details about the event.
A UT Southwestern Medical Center study has found that brain activity in obese women differs from leaner women. Researchers showed a group of women pictures of food after the women had fasted for 12 hours and then after eating a meal. The results showed the parts of the brain that were active when the individuals were hungry, decreased in activity for leaner women after eating the meal while the same areas of the brain remained active for obese women. “We don’t know if this [is] a conditioned response, meaning that after years of eating a certain way, the brain learns to respond differently, or if people are born in fact with different brain activity,” Dr. Nancy Puzziferri, a bariatric surgeon, and professor at UTSW, told KERA. Read more about the study.
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Five local winners received up to $200,000 in funding to activate their solutions throughout North Texas.
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High schoolers who focused on the mental, emotional aspects of health care dominated the hackathon. That's especially impressive, considering that of the 14 teams competing, four were high school teams, eight were college teams, and two were professional teams. See the top three winning submissions here.
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The award from the National Institutes of Health will help HSC lead the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD, program. The effort will bring together experts in community engagement, AI/ML, health equity research, data science training, and data infrastructure.
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The noninvasive technology—developed in collaboration with Austin-based Shani Biotechnologies—may enable real-time monitoring of vital blood parameters like hemoglobin, without taking blood samples or using expensive equipment. It could be especially useful for monitoring people of color, helping to close racial disparities in health care diagnostics.
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Put your problem-solving chops to work. The Children's Health event encourages gamification, augmented reality to solve for age-old pediatric health care problems. There's even a no-code challenge.
