UTHSC, Le Bonheur secure funding for projects to treat mental trauma in children
The Urban Child Institute granted $375,000 to the UTHSC Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being, and $500,000 for Le Bonheur’s Family Resilience Initiative.
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Want to get paid $500 a month? You might qualify if you have a two-year-old in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn — Do you need $500 a month? A new program in Memphis starts in August and it’ll pay parents $500 a month to participating families. Equity to Prosperity targets low-income Memphis families with two-year-olds. This new Pre-K program is to ensure kids are on grade level when they start elementary school. Eric Harris created… Read More
Who killed Mallory Morgan? $20,000 reward now offered in midtown Memphis murder
Crime Stoppers of Memphis and Shelby County announced a $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a woman in midtown last month. Mallory Morgan, 27, was shot and killed just after midnight on May 12, 2022, in the parking lot of the Tuscany Midtown Place Apartments at… Read More
Le Bonheur receives $500,000 grant for diabetes research
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital received a $500,000 grant from the Children’s Foundation of Memphis (CFOM) to fund a study that seeks to determine if exercise can be used to prevent prediabetes from developing to type 2 diabetes. Ahlee Kim, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at UTHSC and Amit Lahoti, MBBS, MD, pediatric endocrinologist at Le… Read More
UTHSC is Opening its First Health Hub
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine will open its first UTHSC Health Hub on Saturday, October 30th at 10am in Uptown at 534 North Second Street.The UTHSC Health Hub is a community program that will go out into neighborhoods to provide convenient primary care in underserved areas of Memphis and Shelby County. The… Read More
UTHSC is Opening its First Health Hub
he University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine will open its first UTHSC Health Hub on Saturday, October 30th at 10am in Uptown at 534 North Second Street. The UTHSC Health Hub is a community program that will go out into neighborhoods to provide convenient primary care in underserved areas of Memphis and Shelby County. The… Read More
UTHSC starts new Midwifery Program to tackle maternal morbidity and mortality
This week is National Nurse Midwifery Week, to raise awareness to the work and importance of midwives. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has become the second school in the state to offer a midwifery program.