November was affirming for Dr. Kenneth Ataga, physician-researcher at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and director of its Center for Sickle Cell Disease. Ataga is from Nigeria, where an estimated 1 million people, including 250,000 newborns every year, have sickle cell. In the space of 10 days last month, the FDA approved two… Read More
In the east quadrant what used to be a wide breezeway at the front of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is a new dental clinic just for children. When the hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials formally open it Wednesday afternoon, they will cut a ribbon of floss, a symbol perhaps of the strings… Read More
Lauren and Keith Chalk struggled for years to have a baby. The Southaven couple suffered two miscarriages, and they thought a full-term pregnancy may not be possible for them. Then, on Dec. 2, they welcomed their first child into the world — nine after days after they found out they were pregnant.
Steven Goodman, PhD, vice chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, announced that UTHSC has achieved record growth in research funding. Recently released numbers from the Office of Research show research grants and contract awards for FY19 totaling more than $100 million for the first time in UTHSC history. This number… Read More
A rare –but much needed– pediatric dentistry office is now open inside Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. That’s because children in high poverty areas have limited access to dental clinics. They called it a “floss-cutting” Wednesday by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Organizers hope by opening the clinic inside the hospital parents can group… Read More
Research awards and expenditures up in 2019, tracking toward goals set by chancellor
Patients with sickle cell disease will soon have a new treatment option to reduce pain crises caused by obstructed blood flow. The FDA has approved use of the drug crizanlizumab based on the results of a clinical trial led by Kenneth Ataga, MD, Plough Foundation Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease and director of the… Read More
Mitchell Levine wants the clinic he leads to help Shelby County Schools “educate and inform” faculty on identifying children with sleep apnea, which can hinder brain development. “I think faculty in particular may just not be aware,” said Levine, director of the Dental Sleep Medicine Clinic at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of… Read More
