Publisher: Daily Memphian


Dr. Heimberg, captured by the Nazis, built renowned practice in Memphis

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He also was chairman of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Department of Pharmacology into his 70s and remains on the staff today as a distinguished professor emeritus. Among the dozens of physicians and researchers he trained, he’s known as the patient, kind man who always sees the humanity in others and who always… Read More


Regional One could become the Mid-South’s first academic medical center

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Plans to rebuild Regional One Health and turn it into an academic medical center through a partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will become clearer on June 5.


After the infection: Long COVID prompts more questions than answers

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For now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has landed on a vague, dissatisfying, official designation: “Post-COVID-19 Condition.” Even the word “condition” could have been more precise, says Dr. Amber Thacker, assistant professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UT Health Science Center and medical director of hospital medicine at Regional One Health.


Dixon’s ‘Watercolors & Ceramics’ exhibit showcases movement, passion

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Žak Ozmo is a cultural connoisseur, music director, scholar, and specialist in the clinical application of music. He feels privileged to write about the culture of our remarkable city. He is on the faculty at Rhodes College and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Memphis company gets federal approval for Lyme disease prevention drug

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The inventor of the vaccine is US Biologic’s co-founder Dr. Maria Gomes-Solecki. A professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, her research focuses on understanding the transmission of Lyme disease from ticks to mammals.


UTHSC mobile health unit expands rural access while educating nursing students

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing on Thursday, May 11, unveiled a new mobile health unit dedicated to expanding health care access in rural areas while integrating rural health education into the college’s degree programs. The unit will be staffed and operated by the college to increase health care access in… Read More


Local health care organizations receive millions in grants to expand services

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Five local organizations are among the 54 first-round award recipients of a $230 million statewide program to expand health care services. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, Porter-Leath and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center received grants from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Healthcare Resiliency Program.


Methodist Transplant Institute is focusing on harder-to-place organs

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Vanatta, who’s the endowed chair for Excellence in Liver Transplantation at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, said reasons a liver could be deemed harder to place include fat in the liver, an injury to the liver from a trauma or blood vessels that are smaller or contain calcium deposits.