The Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is seeking participants with prediabetes for a new study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health with collaboration from Tufts Medical Center in Boston. The study, referred to as D2d, will determine if vitamin D can reduce the risk of getting… Read More
Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FRCP, who directs both the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and the Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a major grant to continue his study of prediabetes. Those with prediabetes, a condition involving higher-than-normal blood sugar levels, progress to diabetes at a rate… Read More
About one person in 20 develops an autoimmune disorder. These range from rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or multiple sclerosis, to other progressive autoimmune syndromes. A number of neurodegenerative and age-related disorders, as well as other chronic inflammatory afflictions, also have an underlying immune contribution.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, UT Health Science Center, and UT Medical Group Create UT Methodist Physicians Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 30, 2013) – Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has partnered with UT Medical Group, Inc. (UTMG) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to create a new academic physician practice group that will enhance the… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 9, 2013) – Despite the advances in cancer treatment during the last few decades, there has been little improvement in the care of patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. The median survival rate for patients with this aggressive form of brain cancer, which took the life of U.S. Sen.… Read More
Rex Amonette, MD, and Robert Kaplan, MD Memphis, Tenn. (July 30, 2013) — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Dermatology Department in the College of Medicine has been officially named the Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology, in honor of Robert Kaplan, MD, and Rex Amonette, MD. Drs. Kaplan and Amonette, both UTHSC dermatology alumni,… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (June 26, 2013) – Can taking calcium and vitamin D help prevent bone fractures among women taking postmenopausal hormone therapy? That’s the question that researchers and more than 60,000 women have tried to answer through a Women’s Health Initiative study. Over more than 19 years, postmenopausal participants aged 50 to 79 years enrolled… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (June 26, 2013) – When it comes to the iris of the eye, most people are focused on its color – green, blue, brown and so on. But a group of scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) are researching the genetics of iris diseases and have recently published a… Read More
