Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Haslam budget plan includes new $39 million dentistry building at UT Health Science Center

The Commercial Appeal

Gov. Bill Haslam’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal unveiled Monday night includes $39 million for a new College of Dentistry building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and to renovate existing dentistry school facilities.


Planners map ways to spark life in Medical Center, Edge District

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Many different signs of various styles, colors and sizes greet visitors who drive through the Memphis Medical Center along Union: Methodist University Hospital, Methodist Healthcare, Southern College of Optometry, Church Health Center, Baptist College of Health Sciences, an orange “UT,” UT-Baptist Research Park, and University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


February dental clinic promises free care, long lines

The Commercial Appeal

In the Memphis area, those places include the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry …


West Cancer Center debuts in Germantown, plans another location in Midtown

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With a partnership formed in 2012 by The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the West Cancer Center links cancer treatment, clinical trials, education and research together under the same roof.


Mid-South Memories: Nov. 16, 1979

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Dave Darnell/The Commercial Appeal files Dr. William G. Andrade (right), director of the Emergency Services Dept. at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, discusses new emergency room ideas to be implemented at the hospital with (from left) Francis X. Maguire, senior vice president of Corporate Communications at Federal Express (now FedEx); Dr. John Griffith, Medical Director at… Read More


Group buying up land in Edge district

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Investments in the Medical District are planned by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, but many blocks remain unsightly, Prosterman said.


Le Bonheur to test promising new drug on babies battling RSV

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Le Bonheur is the “main place” for the worldwide test of a antiviral drug known as ALS-008176, which could redefine how RSV cases are handled, said Dr. John DeVincenzo, medical director, molecular and viral diagnostics at Le Bonheur. He’s the lead author of a study — published last week in the New England Journal of… Read More


Medical District’s chart is packed with healthy developments

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The $40 million donation to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute is a great shot in the arm for the hospital, for the Medical District and for Memphis as a whole.