The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received more than $1.8 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesthat will be used to fund four research projects.
The project is an initiative of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and is funded by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s foundation arm. The project works with about 400 expecting and new mothers in Memphis and Chattanooga to help them decrease the risk of losing a child within the first year of life — the… Read More
Ilana Graetz, Ph.D., is assistant professor, department of preventive medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.
… with the nurse practitioners from UTHSC School of Nursing, ninety preschool physicals were performed.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center partners with the Memphis Crisis Center, providing its call center, training facility and administrative offices on the campus.
And even with those subsidies, many people – especially younger adults – can’t afford health care, found an analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. ‘We saw a lot of analysis of premium variations for the benchmark plan, but not a lot out there for the lowest-cost plan,’ lead study… Read More
“Less to Wine About Wednesdays”: Fundraiser for the Memphis Crisis Center at Rizzo’s Diner, 106 G.E. Patterson, kicks off Memphis Crisis Center Awareness Week (Sept. 10 through Sept. 16). Rizzo’s donates portion of the proceeds from lunch and dinner to the Crisis Center. Call 901-523-2033, visit online: memphiscrisiscenter.org or rizzosdiner.com.
Robert C. Klesges, a preventive medicine expert in Memphis, will head a scientific review section for the National Institutes of Health. He is a professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s preventive medicine department. He’ll chair the Community-Level Health Promotion Study Section for NIH’s Center for Scientific Review, UTHSC said.
