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What we know about the first case of measles detected in Tennessee

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“It’s so contagious that if there’s a person in a room with measles and you walk past that room and the door is open and you’re susceptible, you could get measles,” Dr. Sandy Arnold, the chief of pediatric diseases at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, said.


Brescia looking to add physician assistant program

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Hayden is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and he completed his residency at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center with an emphasis in psychiatry and internal medicine along with completing a fellowship in infectious disease.


RedHill’s Talicia® Listed as First-Line Choice for H. pylori in New American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines

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First new American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Clinical Guideline[1] for H. pylori infection since Talicia’s approval lists Talicia as an empirically prescribed first-line option.


RISE Project Awarded NIH grant

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Xiaopeng Zhao, a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering and founding director of the Applied AI Program in the College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies at UT, is part of a collaborative team that has been awarded a $401,090 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.


Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

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Over the past 12,000 years, humans in Europe have dramatically increased their ability to digest carbohydrates, expanding the number of genes they have for enzymes that break down starch from an average of eight to more than 11, according to a new study by researchers from the U.S., Italy and United Kingdom.


From Surgeon-in-Chief to President, Dr. Trey Eubanks’ Work at Le Bonheur is a Labor of Love

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Approaching his first anniversary as president of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Trey Eubanks, MD, is thankful to be practicing a career he loves, and appreciative of those whose support made it all possible.


Koya’s NPCD device proves more effective than APCDs in lymphedema

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The TEAYS study’s lead investigator and associate professor of surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Michael Barfield said: “The introduction of Dayspring represents a clinically differentiated and therapeutically distinct advancement in the treatment of lower extremity lymphedema.


Mempho Fest, in Partnership with Positive Legacy, to Hold Mempho Charity Auction to Benefit Local Charities Stax Music Academy and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

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Mempho Presents, organizers of the Mempho Music Festival, announced a partnership with Positive Legacy, a 501(c)(3) charitable non-for-profit that integrates music and service to benefit ‘people and the planet’, to auction off signed memorabilia including concert tickets, instruments, posters, one-of-a-kind experiences and more during Mempho Music Festival.