DALLAS – Jan. 20, 2012 – The health benefits of exercise on blood sugar metabolism may come from the body’s ability to devour itself, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in the journal Nature. Dr. Beth Levine (second from left) and UT Southwestern colleagues – including Dr. Philipp Scherer, Dr. Kai Sun and Dr. Congcong [...]

The budget compromise recently hammered out in Washington breathes new life into a major literacy initiative at the U.S. Department of Education. Congress restored the moribund  program, which seeks to promote literacy from birth to the end of high school, as part of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2012 that President Barack Obama signed [...]

California State University, Long Beach, has once again been named as one of the best deals in education, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. The university was ranked No. 98 on the magazine’s list of the top 100 best values in public colleges for 2011-12, education officials announced Tuesday. Last year, Cal State Long Beach [...]

DALLAS – Dec. 1, 2011 – UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist and immunologist Dr. Bruce A. Beutler and other 2011 Nobel Prize winners from the U.S. today met with President Barack Obama at the White House, launching a series of events leading to the prize ceremony in Stockholm later this month. Dr. Bruce A. Beutler [...]

You should buy toys specifically designed to be used outdoors to help your children have fun, let them release some of that extra energy. This way you will keep toys in better shape than if you had just used toys for indoor and taken into out. Buying a jump king trampoline is a big step [...]

The school buses that transport Arlington Public Schools students are under “a great strain” and reaching a “breaking point,” according to an independent report. The problem, said Management Partnerships Inc., is that the school system has addressed problems with individual routes — adding a bus here, reducing the number of runs there — rather than [...]