Diagnosis and management of hyperkalemia, a life-threatening electrolyte abnormality that disrupts potassium homeostasis, requires skillful navigation of complex clinical scenarios rife with unknowns and treatment paradoxes, clinicians told MedPage Today. …For one, the diagnosis of hyperkalemia often “catches clinicians by surprise,” said Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.… Read More
What are you making for dinner tonight? Many people will try out those new plant-based burgers and patties, believing they are a healthy option to real beef, but are those plant-based products healthier than the cow? Susan Warner M.D., from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is both a doctor and a nutritionist. “They think it is… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has launched an Infantile Epilepsy Center that focuses on the potentially devastating diagnosis of infantile spasms and other rare epilepsies that affect children under two-years-old. “Infants are not just small children,” said Sarah Weatherspoon, MD, an assistant professor of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Director… Read More
Dr. Shelly White-Means of The University of Tennessee Health Science Center presented Workplace Settings and Job Types as Determinants of Health Disparities. “More African Americans are entering the ‘gig market’ to survive, trading traditional jobs for non-standard work,” says White-Means. She cited rideshare companies Uber and Lyft. Temporary and contract employers don’t typically offer health insurance –… Read More
RedHill Biopharma Ltd., a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary drugs for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Talicia® (omeprazole magnesium, amoxicillin and rifabutin) delayed-release capsules 10 mg1/250 mg/12.5 mg for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)… Read More
The world of sickle cell research paid quiet homage Friday to Memphis entrepreneur and civic leader Frank M. Norfleet. Instead of endowing a university research chair or a hospital wing, he left money when he died in 2012 to bring researchers here every year to discuss big issues in medicine. This year’s one-day Norfleet Forum… Read More
Dr. Qi Zhao is a data epidemiologist. Her lab is her small office in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center doctors’ office building on North Pauline, where these days she’s crunching realms of data on the grip strength of people in their 60s and the speed of their gait, and then cross-referencing it with… Read More
Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced that a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology reports a potential new diagnostic, mChip-Ld, which can be performed in 15 minutes in a physician’s office, offers efficacy improvement over the current gold standard diagnostic, the two-tier test,… Read More
