Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Need some good news? Here are some of the most uplifting stories from The CA this year

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Every year brings good and bad and 2024 was no different. But it’s important to reflect on the good things that happened throughout Memphis and the Mid-South because plenty of great things happened.


Memphis People in Business: Dec. 19, 2024

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Memphis-based brain and spine care provider Semmes Murphey Clinic has hired two general neurologists: Dr. Caitlin Brockenshire and Dr. Neha Kumar.


Memphis man found guilty of killing wife during Fiji honeymoon

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A Memphis man was convicted last week of killing his wife, a Memphis pharmacist and UT-Health Sciences graduate, while the couple were honeymooning at a luxury resort in Fiji, reported The Fiji Times.


Memphis-based UT Health Science Center makes an impact all over Tennessee | Opinion

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The iconic riverfront in downtown Memphis had an orange glow on the night of Nov. 21. That’s because the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Tennessee Foundation partnered with Memphis Bridge Lighting, Inc., to light the Hernando de Soto Bridge and the Harahan Bridge across the Mississippi in orange for one night. We… Read More


Memphis People in Business: Oct. 17, 2024

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Marcia Sharp, an associate professor in the Health Informatics and Information Management program in the College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was named a Fellow in The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).


How doctor’s mission to ease the burden of sickle cell disease in Nigeria led her to Memphis

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Dr. Aisha Galadanci Akilu, a hematologist focusing on sickle cell disease, is in the process of earning a PhD in health outcomes and policy research at UTHSC. Research she has done in Memphis has already made a difference in her hometown of Kano, Nigeria.


Memphis People in Business: Oct. 3, 2024

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Assistant Professor Christie Manasco was named Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing.


This type of reconstructive surgery usually takes months. Memphis surgeons did it in hours

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For several years, however, a team of surgeons at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, in partnership with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, had been preparing to do this type of surgery in a single day ― a feat that had never been done in Tennessee.