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A team at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is using a revolutionary method to study certain viruses, which could lead to the ability to test for diseases that affect the brain.

Ozmo Institute for Neuroaesthetics presents two programs exploring the healing power of sound and music: “The Sonic Prescription: Harnessing Music to Heal the Brain and Body,” and the first in a planned series of Concerts for Well-Being, featuring Diamond Strings.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has plans to build a new College of Medicine building.

In recent years, the City of Memphis has become more responsive to citizens when it comes to how businesses or industries impact life here.

This week, as the Tennessee legislature took up immigration, vouchers, and disaster funding, Memphis and Shelby County officials faced their own challenges.

Hungarian-born Penczner and his German wife, Jolanda, were part of a lively community of Central European expats in Memphis, a group that also included Dr. Gabor Tigyi, a fellow Hungarian and chair of the Department of Physiology at UT Health Science Center.

The only human vaccine for Lyme disease was discontinued in 2002 due to limited demand and concerns about potential side effects. But Dr. Maria Gomes-Solecki, a professor of microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, had worked on that vaccine and believed it could continue to help reduce the spread… Read More

But what happens if you are poor and blind due to cataracts? Just ask the 24 people who had their cataracts removed last Saturday at the Sixth-Annual Cataract-A-Thon at the Hamilton Eye Institute. Patients from Mid-South Lions and Church Health who were all legally blind can now see once again because an army of volunteers… Read More