You have a fever and a cough. How do you know if this is the flu or the new coronavirus that is sweeping across continents and upheaving travel and daily plans of millions if not billions of individuals? The answer is simple. If you live in the United States as of Feb. 1, 2020, there… Read More
A team of medical researchers here have a deep hunch that a gene, thought to regulate metabolism in the body, could hold clues to new treatments for diabetes. Ten years ago, Dr. Darryl Quarles, head of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Division of Nephrology, made a name for himself in the research world… Read More
Between his teaching and surgery schedule at Methodist University Hospital, Dr. Denis Foretia has carved out a week in February for the kind of work that feeds his soul.He’s headed to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, to work out formal agreements with the University of Nigeria Medical Centre and a host of hospitals in the… Read More
By now, all us have that low-carb friend. The one who hisses at bread and pasta like a garlic-frightened vampire. The one who asks for bunless burgers at a restaurant. The person who rices (yes, it’s a verb here) cauliflower and “spiralizes” zucchinis into something called “zoodles.”
Despite her extensive list of professional credits and global recognition in the field of vision and ophthalmology, native New Yorker Penny Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO, now calls herself a hometown Memphian, excited about progress toward the goals she’s pursuing as chair and professor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Department of… Read More
Researchers with the Memphis VA and UTHSC lead a nationwide study to help caregivers who are taking care of veterans with traumatic brain injuries. Also: One News Page: https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Business/1zlq13ll1i/How-two-longtime-Memphis-researchers-are-helping-brain.htm
Researchers have known for years that people with Type 2 diabetes are three times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, even die from it, than the rest of the population.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center has worked out arrangements to support 15 students from China each year as they enter and complete three-year graduate training programs in health sciences here.
