Health & wellness
BY HEATHER MCCULLOUGH
Health & Wellness Edition 2026
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Health & Wellness Edition! This guide features the latest updates and resources on health and wellness in your community, all of which were written by our team of local journalists. This year’s guide takes a look back at several wellness-oriented businesses that opened in 2025, from cryotherapy to IV injections. If tness is your New Year’s resolution, check out the listings that will help you nd your nearest trails for running, walking or cycling. Finally, dive deeper on an area business, Roots Renewal Ranch, and its e orts to improve the mental health of adolescent girls through di erent means of therapy. Happy reading!
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What's inside
Read more about local trails (Page 12)
Check out health and wellness businesses openings (Page 14)
Learn how Roots Renewal Ranch helps girls heal (Page 15)
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UNT Health College of Pharmacy gets $6.8M in research funds
The College of Pharmacy at the University of North Texas Health Fort Worth earned recognition in scal year 2023-24 research rankings, according to a news release from the university. What happened? The nonpro t Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research delivered a ranking based on the research funding given to the college by the National Institutes of Health, per the release. The college received $3.2 million in NIH funding for FY 2023-24 and ranked No. 4 in Texas and No. 41 nationally in pharmacy schools, according to the release. Additionally, the pharmacy program moved from fth to fourth place in Texas and climbed ve spots nationally to No. 42 in the American Asso- ciation of Colleges of Pharmacy’s 2024 research funding report, per UNT’s release. The association tracks total external research funding.
The details The College of Pharmacy secured $6.8 million in total research funding and ranked second in Texas and 14th nationally for the percentage of faculty with federal funding, the release states. “Our faculty members not only advance impactful, federally funded research that improves patient care, but also mentor graduate and professional students eager to follow in their footsteps,” said Evan Robinson, dean of the College of Pharmacy. What else? The funding received from the NIH was used to advance discovery in elds, including vision science, neurodegenerative disease and endocrinology. “External grant funding is a metric for which we can be proud,” said Denise Inman, interim chair and professor of pharmaceutical sciences.
The College of Pharmacy at UNT Health Fort Worth received $3.2 million in NIH funding for scal year 2023- 24 and ranked No. 4 in Texas and No. 41 nationally in pharmacy schools.
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