Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Memphis Medical District Collaborative Works to Revitalize Neighborhood

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“We’re considering incentives for people across the socioeconomic spectrum to move back to where they work,’’ said [Tommy] Pacello, president of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative.


Preparing to look at the Solar Eclipse

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“People should not look at the solar eclipse with bare eyes except for a second or two,’’ said Dr. James C. “Chris’’ Fleming, chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Dr. Byrne drove himself, others to hold Frayser together

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Dr. Bill Byrne retired from the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center in 1989, a couple of years before he began working in Frayser.


UT College of Medicine Debuts Mobile Stroke Unit

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“We are essentially the equivalent of a stroke center delivered to the doorstep of the patient,” said Dr. Andrei Alexandrov, University of Tennessee Health Science Center neurology professor, chairman of the neurology department and medical director of the stroke ambulance.


UTHSC Does Well in Campus Safety

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center reported no such offenses in 2014 or 2015.


Hundreds take advantage of free health fair

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A line of hundreds of people snaked from the parking lot into the auditorium of Raleigh Assembly of God Church Saturday morning for a free community health fair… First-year pharmacy school student Erica Washington manned a table at the fair with her fellow University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy students. They performed blood pressure and… Read More


Michael Ugwueke rose from war-torn Nigeria to become Methodist LeBonheur’s next CEO

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… a 2001 decision to make academic – or teaching – hospitals of Methodist University and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital through its partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


$5.2M study in Memphis will test texting, coaching to control diabetes

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A medical study of how text messaging and health coaching may help African Americans with uncontrolled diabetes will be launched in Memphis with a $5.2 million research award to a University of Tennessee Health Science Center researcher … Dr. Jim Bailey, director of the Center for Health System Improvement and professor of internal and preventive… Read More