Childhood obesity is a serious health problem, affecting 13.7 million American children and adolescents ages 2 to 19, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obesity puts children at risk for poor health and disproportionately affects Hispanic and African-American communities, the CDC has found. Webb Smith, who earned a doctorate… Read More
During two visits to UT Health Science Center in recent months, University of Tennessee interim president Randy Boyd asked students what they wanted to see for the Memphis campus – including any big, ambitious goals they had. Boyd, who took office in November, says what he heard was “just making their environment better, just making… Read More
Dr. Evan S. Glazer, assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology and the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been awarded a $100,000 grant to study a protein’s role in pancreatic cancer progression. The grant from the Society for Surgery of the… Read More
Ground-breaking work by university experts in Tennessee, Texas and Swansea is helping develop a better understanding of the growing threat posed by antifungal drug resistance. National Institutes of Health (USA) funding supported a collaboration between the University of Tennessee, the University of Texas and Swansea University as part of a $2 million, five-year research program.… Read More
Patients with obesity who were hospitalized for atrial fibrillation had a lower risk for stroke and in-hospital mortality compared with those without obesity, according to a study published in The American Journal of Cardiology. “To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to report the paradoxical protective effect of obesity on in-hospital… Read More
More than 6,000 people in the Memphis area are living with HIV, according to a 2016 AIDSVu study. A glaring problem identified by University of Tennessee Health Science Center student Sarah Collier is giving proper treatment to those susceptible to the disease and those who unknowingly have it.
Out-of-state students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will see reduced tuition rates for the upcoming academic year. Those tuition reductions will impact students applying at Colleges of Pharmacy and Graduate Health Sciences, as well as for the Dental Hygiene program in the College of Dentistry.
Beginning this summer, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is cutting out-of-state tuition for some programs – positive news for Arkansas and Mississippi students who cross the state line to attend class. UTHSC is reducing tuition for out-of-state students in some programs. Effective July 1, out-of-state students in the colleges of Pharmacy and Graduate… Read More
