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UTHSC receives $5.1M for relative caregiver program

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When a child can’t live with their parents, the next best thing is family. The Relative Caregiver Program gives grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives the support they need to step in and keep children out of the foster care system.


How much sun is too much? Regional One surgical oncologist weighs in

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Whether you’re spending the day at the pool, on the golf course, or cheering on your kids from the sidelines, sun safety should be top of mind. Skin cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer, yet cases continue to rise. Dr. Martin Fleming, a surgical oncologist for Regional One Health and Division… Read More


UTHSC offering free dental services to Memphis students

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The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host its annual Give Kids A Smile Day on May 7.


A Better Memphis: UTHSC working to improve care for sickle cell patients

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.