Preliminary research suggesting that some diabetes patients may be injecting medicine that has partially disintegrated is causing concern even as serious questions are raised about the research itself… “If that were true, then you would have the emergency rooms full with uncontrolled diabetic patients,” said Bernd Meibohm, a pharmaceutical sciences professor and research director at… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s new $9.5 million outpatient center in Jackson is now open… The 255-bed Le Bonheur hospital in Memphis serves as a primary teaching affiliate for the University Tennessee Health Science Center and trains more than 350 pediatricians and specialists each year.
The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center recently participated in the American Dental Association’s annual Give Kids a Smile Day. Partnering with Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter School, the College of Dentistry provided 1,105 procedures to more than 80 children valued at $22,188.
In the early months of each year, volunteers at the Memphis Crisis Center brace for what they know will come. Once the holidays are over and winter sets in, call volume will go up. The area’s free, 24/7 crisis intervention hotline for almost 50 years, is looking for committed volunteers to answer those calls.
The 2018 host sponsors are the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, which convened the first summit in 2015; Baptist Cancer Center; and West Institute for Cancer Research.
The UTHSC Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Solutions is among the finalists for Building Memphis 2018 which recognizes and honors exceptional construction and renovation projects in the Mid-South.
During his dean’s report, Dr. Bruce Shack, dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, addressed a resolution passed in the previous monthly board meeting that directed Erlanger to review and enforce the terms of the hospital’s affiliation agreement with the University of Tennessee and its Health Sciences Center. “As all the… Read More
Opiate drugs, which come from the opium poppy flower, and synthetic, or man-made, opioids also can trigger that brain process in the mesolimbic system. The drugs attach to certain specialized proteins on the same receptor brain cells where the pleasure-causing chemicals the body naturally makes normally attach. So can other drugs, including alcohol — but… Read More
