Publisher: US News & World Report


Pediatricians advise parents to shift away from tempting convenience foods.

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Indeed, homemade lunches are often higher in calories and lower in nutritional value than the fare served in the lunch line. That’s not so surprising since they tend to reflect the packaged foods that fill the American diet, says Mark Corkins, chief of pediatric gastroenterology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital at the University of Tennessee… Read More


Dr. Dagogo-Jack Quoted on Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Lower Life Expectancy

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“Across the board, individuals who had better glucose control due to intensive therapy had increased survival,” said co-author Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.


Ilana Graetz Quoted on Affordable Care

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  This group of adults faces ‘the biggest gap in affordability by far,’ said Ilana Graetz, assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and the study’s lead author.