Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


UT College of Medicine Debuts Mobile Stroke Unit

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“We are essentially the equivalent of a stroke center delivered to the doorstep of the patient,” said Dr. Andrei Alexandrov, University of Tennessee Health Science Center neurology professor, chairman of the neurology department and medical director of the stroke ambulance.


UTHSC Does Well in Campus Safety

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center reported no such offenses in 2014 or 2015.


Hundreds take advantage of free health fair

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A line of hundreds of people snaked from the parking lot into the auditorium of Raleigh Assembly of God Church Saturday morning for a free community health fair… First-year pharmacy school student Erica Washington manned a table at the fair with her fellow University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy students. They performed blood pressure and… Read More


Michael Ugwueke rose from war-torn Nigeria to become Methodist LeBonheur’s next CEO

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… a 2001 decision to make academic – or teaching – hospitals of Methodist University and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital through its partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


$5.2M study in Memphis will test texting, coaching to control diabetes

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A medical study of how text messaging and health coaching may help African Americans with uncontrolled diabetes will be launched in Memphis with a $5.2 million research award to a University of Tennessee Health Science Center researcher … Dr. Jim Bailey, director of the Center for Health System Improvement and professor of internal and preventive… Read More


Haslam budget plan includes new $39 million dentistry building at UT Health Science Center

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Gov. Bill Haslam’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal unveiled Monday night includes $39 million for a new College of Dentistry building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and to renovate existing dentistry school facilities.


Planners map ways to spark life in Medical Center, Edge District

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Many different signs of various styles, colors and sizes greet visitors who drive through the Memphis Medical Center along Union: Methodist University Hospital, Methodist Healthcare, Southern College of Optometry, Church Health Center, Baptist College of Health Sciences, an orange “UT,” UT-Baptist Research Park, and University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


February dental clinic promises free care, long lines

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In the Memphis area, those places include the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry …