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Astronaut from Tennessee inducted into Hall of Fame

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Dr. Margaret Rhea Seddon is a 1973 graduate of the medical school and one of NASA’s first female astronauts … The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis said [that] from 1996 to 2007, Seddon was assistant chief medical officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.


Fewer U.S. Hospitals Send New Moms Home With Formula

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“The first few weeks of breast-feeding can be difficult for many women, and this unfortunately occurs during one of the most stressful and overwhelming times in a mother’s life,” said Dr. Natalie Bishop, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Behavior specialists analyze what’s behind students attacking teachers

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Malissa Duckworth, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with U-T Health Science Center, worked with childhood behavior issues.


Thompson honored by Tennessee Dental Association

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Graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry in 1978, Thompson has practiced dentistry in Murfreesboro since then.


Diabetes May Be a Risk Factor for Developing Alzheimer’s, Studies Find

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“If we prematurely equate diabetes with a condition as severe as dementia or Alzheimer’s, we’d be doing a great disservice to the 29 million people in this country who hold complex positions and fulfill complex job requirements,” says Samuel Dagogo-Jack, a diabetes specialist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center


An alumna of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine is being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame

An alumna of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine is being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame this week.


UTHSC prof gets NIH money to study macular degeneration

The Memphis Business Journal

Edward Chaum, Plough Foundation professor of retinal diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Hamilton Eye Institute, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to fund research into the cellular changes in the eye that cause age-related macular degeneration.


St. Jude Children scientists create promising second-generation antibiotic

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The other authors are Dora Madhura, Yasser Abdelrahman, Chetan Rathi, Robert Belland and Bernd Meibohm, all of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …