UTHSC offering free dental services to Memphis students
The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host its annual Give Kids A Smile Day on May 7.
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A Better Memphis: UTHSC working to improve care for sickle cell patients
Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects about 100,000 people in the United States, including 2,000 in the Mid-South.
UTHSC received Carnegie R1 designation
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center certainly has a big role in making a better Memphis. Its mission is to transform lives through collaborative and inclusive education, research/scholarship, clinical care, and public service, with a mission of Healthy Tennesseans. Thriving Communities.
Bluff City Medical Society hosting 21st annual scholarship gala
The Bluff City Medical Society is hosting their annual fundraising event to raise the scholarship funds for minority medical students and medical residents at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. Bluff City Medical Society President Michelle Kitson joined the Action News 5 Digital Desk to preview the event.
Ellie Young candlelight vigil held by UTHSC student body
The memory of Ellie Young, a medical student who was murdered last weekend at Shelby Farms, is being kept by her fellow medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Family and friends remember Ellie Young, UTHSC student killed in Shelby Farms Park
Young was recently pursuing her dreams of becoming a doctor, just like her older sister, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. This was the dream she was pursuing before being killed Saturday at Shelby Farms Park.
Mid-South summer COVID surge comes during 3-year anniversary of 11-year-old’s death from virus
”Children overall do well, they do not experience hospitalization or death, but it’s certainly possible, especially children who are immune compromised,” said Dr. Amber Thacker, a hospitalist and principal investigator for multiple clinical trials surrounding COVID vaccines at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
How UV rays can lead to skin cancer, melanoma
Dr. Martin Fleming, a Surgical Oncologist for Regional One Health and Division Chief for Surgical Oncology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center joined the Action News 5 Digital Desk to discuss the issue.