UTHSC In the Media


West Cancer Center Opens New Wolf River Facility

The Daily News

The West Cancer Center serves all adults impacted by cancer, and the partnership behind it helps fulfill that mission by pulling together the resources from three institutions – West Clinic, Methodist and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


One woman’s plastic surgery gone wrong; learn how to protect yourself

WREG

Wallace is the head of the University of Tennessee’s plastic surgery department. He said the problem with this procedure isn’t the technique but usually who’s allowed to perform it. “It’s not that the technology is bad,” he said. “It’s that their patient might not be aware that they’re seeing a physician who doesn’t have formal… Read More


West Cancer Center debuts in Germantown, plans another location in Midtown

The Commercial Appeal

With a partnership formed in 2012 by The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the West Cancer Center links cancer treatment, clinical trials, education and research together under the same roof.


National Institutes of Health is good for physical, economic well-being

Currently, the NIH is funding $626 million in projects in Tennessee, with $124 million of those in Memphis primarily going to University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of Memphis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.


‘No Matter Where’ brings health information exchange to big screen

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“This film was designed in a way that my mother can get this,” Dr. Kevin Johnson, chair of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, and maker of “No Matter Where,” said.


Mid-South Doctor Cycles His Way To Work

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Steinhauer rides from home to work every day. Even taking a spin between working at the hospital and teaching at University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Exploring the Use of Stem Cells in Fat to Repair Damage From Diabetic Retinopathy

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an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Gangaraju has relocated from Indiana School of Medicine—along with a $1-million grant from the National Eye Institute—to continue his quest to halt the damage that diabetes causes. His method? Repair the damage with stem cells, using a plentiful source: fat tissue.


Mid-South Memories: Nov. 16, 1979

The Commercial Appeal

Dave Darnell/The Commercial Appeal files Dr. William G. Andrade (right), director of the Emergency Services Dept. at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, discusses new emergency room ideas to be implemented at the hospital with (from left) Francis X. Maguire, senior vice president of Corporate Communications at Federal Express (now FedEx); Dr. John Griffith, Medical Director at… Read More