Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Demolition and construction are reshaping Memphis UT campus: Campus upgrades to help UTHSC attract top researchers

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Heavy equipment demolished another chunk of the Goodman Family Residence Hall on Wednesday, and a former bus barn, Randolph Hall and the Feurt also are slated to bite the dust on the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus. Meanwhile, a $49 million Translational Science Research Building is shaping up for its debut by the summer of… Read More


Mother’s campaign wins experimental drug for son at Memphis-based St. Jude

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Dr. Ari VanderWalde, the new associate vice chancellor of clinical trial research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center said cases like Josh’s are extremely complicated, highly charged and center not only on the patient seeking an unproven drug, but the risk of jeopardizing others in the future who would get it.


UTHSC Hosts Lifeblood Drive 3/12

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Lifeblood host community blood drive: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday in the UTHSC General Education Building (rooms B201-B204), 8 S. Dunlap. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 901-529-6320 for an appointment. Visit clublifeblood.org.


UTHSC neurologist envisions citywide stroke program

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Dr. Andrei Alexandrov said he couldn’t make stroke specialists available citywide in Birmingham, so he’s moved to Memphis, where he believes he has a better shot. Alexandrov is moving in to his office at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine, where he is the new chairman of the Department of Neurology, and Semmes-Murphey… Read More


Treatments abound, but cause of migraines remains elusive

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“Migraines cost our society billions of dollars a year,” said Memphis neurologist Dr. Stephen Landy… He is also a founding partner of Wesley Neurology Headache Clinic in Memphis and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at UT Health Science Center in Memphis.


Memphis firm readies new Lyme disease tech for market

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Maria Gomes-Solecki, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry with UTHSC as well as President and CEO of Immunotechnologies, Inc., has worked to complete a field study that shows a vaccine for mice that helps fight Lyme disease in humans.


UTHSC’s Allied Health Open House 2-4 pm Friday in the SAC

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UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Open to anyone interested in learning about careers in the allied health professions — dental hygiene, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science, health informatics, cytotechnology/histotechnology. 901-448-2126. uthsc.edu/allied.


Allied Health Open House

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UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison