The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has launched a new mobile health unit dedicated to growing the availability of rural health care across our great state, starting with Lake and Lauderdale counties. Based in Memphis, UTHSC is the largest educator of health care professionals in Tennessee. But in rural counties in Tennessee, the… 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
Earlier this year, a US radiologist published a paper written with the help of ChatGPT in a peer-reviewed journal. Som Biswas of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis wrote the article “ChatGPT and the Future of Medical Writing” for the journal Radiology.
During the Hamilton Eye Institute’s 52nd annual Alumni/Residents’ Day on Friday, June 9, the school’s ophthalmologists will get to see something new. The Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will officially unveil and cut the ribbon on its newly renovated surgical training lab where residents will learn surgical skills using the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, based in Memphis, launched a new mobile health unit meant to serve rural communities, UT leaders said on Tuesday. In a release, they said the new mobile health unit would start serving Lake County and Lauderdale County — both mostly rural areas located in West Tennessee.
Just before the old health department building on Jefferson was demolished in 2021, the new health department director went back to the fifth floor to see her former office one more time. Her favorite map — a gift from a colleague when she got her first job at the health department in 2013 — was… Read More
Shelby County Commissioners closed a more than nine-hour meeting Monday without identifying a way to fund debt service for a new Regional One Health campus or two new high schools. J. Richard Walker III, chair of emergency medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, told commissioners Monday that out of all the hospitals downtown,… Read More
The Core PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s PR Xchange Awards Competition.
