Publisher: Daily Memphian

UTHSC officials announced Friday they are scheduled to break ground on a new College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building on Oct. 8.

In the mid-1950s, Irvin and Anne Fleming had a big engagement party, with a Press-Scimitar reporter present to write about it for the newspaper’s society page. But as Anne walked down the stairs and leaned on the staircase’s railing, her arm broke and she tumbled to the floor.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center released two reports last week that largely vindicated Pamela Lewis-Kipkulei, a controversial professor in the school’s occupational therapy department.

The former chair of the occupational therapy department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center filed a federal lawsuit Friday, Aug. 7, against the school over her departure earlier this year, arguing that she never intended to resign and that she wants her job back.

A community health hub model led by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and others is expanding statewide, thanks in part to a $4 million donation from United Health Foundation.

Tucked in a storefront in Raleigh Oaks Plaza, city, county and health officials gathered Tuesday, July 28, to cut the ribbon on what they said is desperately needed for local residents: a community health hub.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Music Export Memphis and Memphis Heritage have each made leadership changes aimed at strengthening their missions and expanding their reach.

In 1878, 9-year-old Lena Angevine Warner lost her parents and all five siblings to the yellow fever epidemic — a traumatic event that led to her eventually becoming a nursing legend.