Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Starting the School Year

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A consistent bedtime routine is key to helping your child have a less-stressful start to the school year, according to Dr. Valerie Arnold, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at UTHSC.


Guest column: UTHSC hard at work to be the College of Medicine for Memphis

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Memphis and Shelby County face unique health care challenges — high rates of prematurity, cancer and obesity, and related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.


Norris says state’s Kids Count ranking of 36th is “unacceptable”

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One component of his efforts has been at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, where Norris is helping create and fund a Center for Health in Justice-Involved Youth to study the neurological impacts of violence on children and youth.


Memphis-based Methodist Healthcare taps into Mayo Clinic network

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Shorb said that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis remains Methodist’s academic partner and the Mayo collaboration is going to enhance UTHSC researchers, faculty and residents as well as other Methodist physicians.


Free back-to-school health services offered next week

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Most kids don’t like to think about the start of the school year just around the corner, but the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host an event that will remind them of it on July 18: the 27th Annual Back to School Family Affair event, where they can receive free health services.


Tennessee campuses watching Supreme Court college race case

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The Supreme Court’s decision to rehear a Texas case about race and college admissions is being closely watched on campuses around the state, including the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where a vice chancellor says a diverse medical workforce is critical for addressing health disparities in the city and region.


From saving infants to killing mosquitoes, Madlock has touched lives

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Dr. Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy, professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, lauds Yvonne Madlock upon her retirement from the Shelby County Health Department.


Conference explores potential for black churches to prevent suicides

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Interview with Dr. Battle