WKNO-TV’s “The Best Times” focuses on suicide among senior citizens. Panelists are Dr. Paul Hill of UTHSC and Mike LaBonte of Memphis Crisis Center. Also in this show, is an interview with Dr. Marshall Elam about cholesterol.
MEMPHIS, TENN (localmemphis.com) – Of the 55 homicides so far this year, about 65% involved African American victims, according to the Memphis-Shelby County Crime Commission. This evening LeMoyne-Owen College sponsored a forum to examine the causes of black on black crime and ways to decrease it. The discussion was officially titled “Black-on-Black Crime Forum Program.”… Read More
Dr. Susan Davies will, among other things, lead several administrative units that provide campus support activities and services to students. Those include the offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, Student Life, Student Affairs and the One-Stop Shop. The opportunity she saw in the job here was the chance “to impact students at a different type… Read More
Experts in fields that include criminal justice, psychiatry and corrections will discuss black-on-black crime in Memphis on Thursday during a panel discussion at LeMoyne-Owen College. Panelists include Dr. Altha Stewart, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, William Gupton, director of the Shelby County corrections division and Harold Collins, county crime commission vice president of community engagement.
Novel molecules called selective androgen receptor degraders (SARDs) may offer the next generation of treatment options for advanced prostate cancer, a new industry-sponsored study reports. The results of this research will be presented Saturday, April 1, at ENDO 2017, the 99th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in Orlando, Fla. “If successful in the clinic,… Read More
Dr. Altha Stewart, the first African-American named president-elect of the 37,000-member American Psychiatric Association, will be among the panelists featured during an upcoming discussion at The LeMoyne-Owen College about “black-on-black” crime. The Black on Black Crime in Memphis Forum is set for 6 p.m. on April 6. It will be held in the Little Theatre… Read More
Patients are having to wait longer to make appointments with new doctors in major U.S. cities, according to a new study that links the increased waits partly with an explosion of, well, new patients. The report was issued by Merritt Hawkins, part of the health care staffing firm AMN Healthcare. Meanwhile, another report issued in… Read More
Caregiver participation in Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregivers Health (REACH II or REACH VA) behavioral interventions is not associated with increased Veterans Affairs or Medicare expenditures, according to a study published online March 13 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Linda O. Nichols, PhD, from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in… Read More
