James Wheless, professor and chief of the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, gave lectures earlier this month at Korean hospitals on vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), a technique for treating people with epilepsy. Dongsan Hearing, Korea’s sole VNS provider, said Wednesday that Wheless, a recognized authority on seizure disorders… Read More
This Scientific Statement expands the Society’s 2012 statement by focusing on endocrine disease disparities in the pediatric and sexual and gender minoritized populations. These include pediatric and adult lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) people. The writing group focused on prevalent conditions such as growth disorders, puberty disorders, bone conditions, diabetes and… Read More
Healthcare is vital to everyone’s life, but access is not always there. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is making strides in ensuring rural communities get the care they need. What looks like your average charter bus is healthcare on wheels. UTHSC unveiled its Mobile Health Unit Thursday, providing healthcare where it’s needed most.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing on Thursday, May 11, unveiled a new mobile health unit dedicated to expanding health care access in rural areas while integrating rural health education into the college’s degree programs. The unit will be staffed and operated by the college to increase health care access in… Read More
US Biologic has received conditional licensure from the USDA for its Lyme disease vaccine for mice, with the product meeting all conditional licensure requirements, including the unique addressing of an emergency condition and the demonstration of safety. The approval allows US Biologic to take the vaccine to market. It comes after the company took years… Read More
Sleep apnea may significantly increase the risk for long COVID in adults, according to a study led by the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health as home to the effort’s Clinical Science Core (CSC).
Five local organizations are among the 54 first-round award recipients of a $230 million statewide program to expand health care services. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, Porter-Leath and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center received grants from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Healthcare Resiliency Program.
The first technological achievement is what co-author, Erik Garrison, calls “a quiet revolution in nanotechnology” that allows scientists to see single molecules of DNA. “The fact that you can have a single molecule means you can make a single read that is very, very long,” says Garrison, a computational genetics researcher at the University of… Read More
