Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


UTHSC neurologist envisions citywide stroke program

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Dr. Andrei Alexandrov said he couldn’t make stroke specialists available citywide in Birmingham, so he’s moved to Memphis, where he believes he has a better shot. Alexandrov is moving in to his office at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine, where he is the new chairman of the Department of Neurology, and Semmes-Murphey… Read More


Treatments abound, but cause of migraines remains elusive

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“Migraines cost our society billions of dollars a year,” said Memphis neurologist Dr. Stephen Landy… He is also a founding partner of Wesley Neurology Headache Clinic in Memphis and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at UT Health Science Center in Memphis.


Memphis firm readies new Lyme disease tech for market

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Maria Gomes-Solecki, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry with UTHSC as well as President and CEO of Immunotechnologies, Inc., has worked to complete a field study that shows a vaccine for mice that helps fight Lyme disease in humans.


UTHSC’s Allied Health Open House 2-4 pm Friday in the SAC

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UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Open to anyone interested in learning about careers in the allied health professions — dental hygiene, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science, health informatics, cytotechnology/histotechnology. 901-448-2126. uthsc.edu/allied.


Allied Health Open House

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UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison


Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

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More than 150 people, most of them black women, packed into the Church Health Center last week to explore why black women here suffer most and how the community can help. Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’sinitiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have… Read More


Wendi C. Thomas: Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

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Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s initiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have died from breast cancer.


Dr. Krukowski Quoted in Weight Loss Article

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Becca Krukowski, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC, is quoted in “Weight Loss Roads Less Traveled By,” on page 21 of The Commercial Appeal’s Good Health magazine.