Rachel Kay Stevens got her master’s degree in occupational therapy Friday afternoon. Even though an unrelated shooting at a Downtown hotel caused police to cancel the graduation ceremony next door at the Cook Convention Center. Even though hundreds of graduates and their families had to evacuate the convention center’s ballroom 15 minutes after the ceremony was to… Read More
You’ve heard of Botox. You’ve heard of artificial hips and knees. You’ve heard of transplants. Now you’re going to hear about living a longer time. This isn’t a story about Memphis scientists coming up with a way to live well past 80 years of age. But it’s kind of like that. Let’s say you bruise… Read More
Experts in fields that include criminal justice, psychiatry and corrections will discuss black-on-black crime in Memphis on Thursday during a panel discussion at LeMoyne-Owen College. Panelists include Dr. Altha Stewart, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, William Gupton, director of the Shelby County corrections division and Harold Collins, county crime commission vice president of community engagement.
The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie, Tenn., could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for prescription drug addiction, though they traveled from as far as Nashville and Missouri. They were young… Read More
Michael Dyer, chairman of the Developmental Neurobiology Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, described how federal dollars for biomedical research helped the Memphis cancer center begin saving the eyes and vision of children with cancer. Left untreated, a rare eye cancer called retinoblastoma is virtually always fatal if left untreated and when detected early enough still led… Read More
Among the Trump administration’s policies, a proposal to cut back funding for biomedical research would have one of the most profound impacts on an important Memphis enterprise. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Memphis are among local institutions involved in a thriving scientific research community… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center plans to attract a major apartment complex alongside its campus near Downtown. The university has asked developers for proposals on how 10 acres can be redeveloped for housing and possibly shops and stores in the Memphis Medical District, a two-mile-long area of 8,000 students and 17,000 employees who chiefly commute… Read More
Dr. Sam Dagogo-Jack, professor of medicine and chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, helped lead a major study showing that lifestyle and diet changes can reduce by up to 58 percent the occurrence of diabetes among people who are pre-diabetic. Lifestyle and diet, the study… Read More
