Publisher: WKNO TV


BTH: Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Police Reform, Health care, Climate Change, More

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“Access for all, in terms of healthcare” is a priority, says Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Now, with the partnership of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, a free healthcare program called ShelbyCares will open in a few weeks on Third Street. Harris believes that ShelbyCares is a step in the right direction to… Read More


Music & Medicine

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A special presentation on Music and Medicine. The program explores some of ways that music is being used synergistically with medicine and therapy to help patients recover.


BTH: Pandemic was “Finest Hour” of Academic Medicine, says New Head of UTHSC

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While the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly devastating and vast in impact, it also yielded “academic medicine’s finest hour,” says Dr. Peter Buckley, the new Chancellor of UT Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Buckley says that the science community was able to shift their means of operations, work more closely together, and in some areas, find… Read More


Feeding the Need

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Feeding America released a study of food insecurity that found the hungriest citizens in America are in the Memphis area. 17.3% of our older population struggles to find food to eat. We’ll examine MIFA and their efforts at Feeding The Need. Most of us will chalk up feeling sluggish to old age. But it could… Read More


Numbers are Rising for Suicides Among Senior Citizens

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WKNO-TV’s “The Best Times” focuses on suicide among senior citizens. Panelists are Dr. Paul Hill of UTHSC and Mike LaBonte of Memphis Crisis Center. Also in this show, is an interview with Dr. Marshall Elam about cholesterol.


Dr. Teresa Waters Joins Panel of Experts on Medicare

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Dr. Teresa Waters is chair of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Film by Barak Goodman

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In the laboratory of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Dr. Lawrence Pfeffer …