Michael Alston, EdD, CCDP/AP, assistant vice chancellor for Equity and Diversity, Title IX coordinator, and chief diversity officer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been named to the new position of associate vice chancellor for Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity at UTHSC. The appointment is effective June 30.
In a small study, researchers found college athletes who contracted COVID-19 rarely had cardiac complications. Most had mild COVID symptoms that did not require treatment, and in a small percentage of those with abnormal cardiac testing, there was no evidence of heart damage on special imaging tests. All athletes returned to sports without any health… Read More
With more than a year of data from its own employees, researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have evidence that COVID vaccines prevent infection among people who have no symptoms.
Nasal spray is obviously the way to go with COVID-19. Its easy to apply, easy to sell, it does not really matter at the end if it works or not.
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It’s Children’s Mental Health Week. Thursday, health leaders took this opportunity to have a conversation around youth violence and the impacts of it. Memphis police say in 2020, 38 children died and 30 of them were murdered. In 2021, 10 children have died due to violence so far.The most recent is a 16-year-old who was… Read More
Medical professionals graduating from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will get to celebrate commencement in person. It will be the first in-person commencement ceremonies since 2019 and will celebrate 792 graduates, including medicine, nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy. May 5: WMC-TV May 5: Local 24 May 5: Local 24 News at 6… Read More
Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas Heart will train the next generation of cardiologists with the launch of a cardiology fellowship program, according to a May 3 announcement shared with Becker’s. It’s the hospital’s first Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited fellowship, and was sponsored by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of… Read More
