If you have kidney disease, however, your kidneys may not remove any excess potassium from your body, resulting in hyperkalemia. Even a diet containing an average amount of potassium can cause hyperkalemia among people with kidney disease. “The kidneys play a crucial role in maintaining a normal potassium balance by adjusting the amount of potassium… Read More
Experts and advocates say the new rules will phase out groups that aren’t as effective in pursuing organs for more than 100,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. Critics say decertifying groups will sow chaos in a complex system.Fresh guidelines for organ procurement groups are “long overdue,” said Dr. James D. Eason, transplant surgery… Read More
Despite effort and acknowledgement, new research shows kidney transplantation has not improved much in the last 2 decades for patients with end-stage kidney failure (EKSD).
COVID-19 ushered in an era of painful cuts for most colleges and universities. Layoffs, furloughs and lost raises have become common for staff and faculty members at many institutions.
According to the state of Tennessee, only 1 in 3 people over 70 have been vaccinated. “We need to make sure if you don’t have a computer and you don’t have a car, you can access the vaccine if you would like to get it. And that’s been a challenge,” said Dr. Scott Strome with… Read More
A University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) student has filed a lawsuit against the school alleging she was expelled for sexually suggestive social media posts. Kimberley Diei said the university violated her right to free speech by expelling her from their pharmacy program for her comments on Twitter and Instagram. Backed by the Foundation… Read More
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees, who govern the 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization that is affiliated with NCPDP, has awarded a $100,000 grant to University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Pharmacy for a research project to demonstrate the clinical value of integrating the NCPDP/HL7 Pharmacist eCare Plan (PeCP) in pharmacy and medical… Read More
A young orthopedic surgeon with OrthoSouth who died early Monday, Feb. 8, may be the nation’s first case of an adult who died of a delayed immune response to COVID and had received the vaccine. Dr. J. Barton Williams died early Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. He was 37.
