A local minority-owned business has secured a contract with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) as part of an effort to make the campus and the Medical District more welcoming. Immaculate Landscaping, a certified Minority Business Enterprise and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise with offices in Olive Branch, won the nearly $200,000 landscaping contract to… Read More
Anthony Berryhill is the new chief of police for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He is the former deputy director of the Memphis Police Department. Berryhill has 31 years of experience as a police officer and served in the U.S. military for seven years.
Concussions have many NFL players pointing to the other side of the sport, what it leaves you with years later. There is more research on the lasting damage from football concussions. “What’s thought to happen is the brain can go forward or backward,” said Dr. Jack Tsao, a Professor of Neurology at University of Tennessee… Read More
Maddie Singer, director of anaplastology at UT Health Science Center, gives patients back their lives through remarkably life-like prosthetics she fashions. Here is the story of two of her patients.
Finding out who you are and where you came from using at-home DNA testing kits. Bottom line, we are all very much alike.
The steel rod of the artificial hip had been slathered in antibiotic cement, an effort to ward off a nasty infection that had gone to the bone. But when it had to be removed, the metal-and-plastic contraption was not disposed of as medical waste. Instead, it now sits on a shelf at Drexel University, alongside… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and LeMoyne-Owen College are partnering on a project aimed at getting more minority students interested in studying developmental disabilities.
A discovered-in-Memphis molecule that activates estrogen receptors could eventually lead to a new treatment for obesity. Dr. Ramesh Narayanan, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, discovered the molecule nine years ago and said it converts “bad” fat tissue to “good” energy-burning fat.
