Dr. Martin Fleming, a Surgical Oncologist for Regional One Health and Division Chief for Surgical Oncology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center joined the Action News 5 Digital Desk to discuss the issue.
Evidence is mounting that public health in the U.S. could get a big boost by better engaging community pharmacists in providing acute and chronic care services. These are highly trained clinicians in “extremely accessible” locations no more than five miles from the home of 95% of Americans, according to Kenneth Hohmeier, Pharm.D., professor and vice… Read More
Prevent Blindness has declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. The goal is to educate parents, caregivers, professionals and policy makers on the important role vision and eye health plays in a child’s development, learning ability, and social engagement.
Animalu, who’s also an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, said she declined a speaking engagement at a suburban high school after she was told she could not mention the use of contraceptives while discussing HIV. “I spent 15 years training to become an infectious disease and HIV… Read More
“This is worse in the African American community,” said Dr. Chinelo Animalu, an infectious disease attending physician at Methodist University hospital and associate professor of at UTHSC College of Medicine. “I’m a Black woman from Africa, and this hits me real hard to see young people contracting this disease that’s easy to avoid.”
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center said community leaders, partners and supporters gathered on Wednesday to celebrate the completion of the new Kingsport Dental Clinic of the Appalachian Highlands. It will be operated by the health science center’s College of Dentistry, aiming to improve oral health in the region.
WREG investigators are looking into the illnesses affecting so many in the Mid-South, the toll they are taking, and the fight to turn the tide. All this week, we have been taking an in-depth look at the things in our lives that are wreaking havoc on our health and in many instances, killing us.
As the Tennessee state Senate minority leader, I have a profound responsibility to ensure that all voices in our community are heard. On a historic day in June, at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, the current site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was tragically assassinated, we kicked off the “Freedom to Be Heard”… Read More
