UTHSC In the Media

Mary Kay Ash Foundation℠ Awards $1 Million in Innovative Cancer Research Grants to Top Universities Seeking Cures for Cancers Affecting Women

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The Mary Kay Ash FoundationSM announced $1 million in grants awarded to ten researchers who are conducting groundbreaking research in cancers that primarily affect women from the country’s top cancer research institutes and universities. The grants, which fund innovative, translational cancer research efforts to help with better detection, prognosis and treatment of cancer, are part… Read More

Black female excellence takes center stage at St. Jude Spirit of the Dream

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For the first time in its history, the St. Jude Spirit of the Dream event selected women for each of its highest accolades: the St. Jude Spirit of the Dream award and the Legacy Award. The event, held Thursday, Sept. 29 at The Kent, a premier event space and neighbor to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®,… Read More

New Data Shows Heart Failure Treatment Guided by Daxor’s BVA-100® Lowers Hospital Length of Stay by 55%

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Daxor Corporation, the global leader in blood volume measurement technology, today announces new data validating the benefits of the Company’s BVA-100 diagnostic blood test in reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) for heart failure (HF) patients. Data were presented at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) 2022 – which brought… Read More

RedHill’s Oral Broad-Acting Antivirals, Opaganib and RHB-107, Inhibit Dominant Omicron Sub-Variant BA.5

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The study was done in collaboration with renowned virologist, Dr. Colleen B. Jonsson, Harriet Van Vleet Professor of Virology, Director of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL), and Director of the Institute for the Study of Host-Pathogen Systems at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (UTHSC), who remarked: “We tested RHB-107 and opaganib using a primary human nasal epithelial cell… Read More

Health Care Heroes 2022: Ambrosia Scott of Regional One Health

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In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More

Health Care Heroes 2022: Sandra Arnold of Le Bonheur and UTHSC

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In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More

Genes’ effect on ageing depends on sex and age, mouse study finds

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There have long been good reasons to suspect that an individual’s DNA shapes how they age and how long they live. But “it’s always been iffy as to whether there’s true genetic control of lifespan and longevity”, says Robert Williams, a geneticist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Now, in a… Read More

Iridex Showcases its Non-Incisional Treatments for Glaucoma, Introduces Sweep Management Software, and Hosts 8 Physician Presentations at AAO 2022

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Iridex Corporation (NASDAQ: IRIX), a provider of innovative ophthalmic laser-based medical products for the treatment of glaucoma and retinal diseases, will showcase non-incisional glaucoma treatments, introduce its Sweep Management Software, and host 8 physician presentations at the 2022 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting in Chicago, September 30 – October 3. “MicroPulse TLT is… Read More