Two university’s in Memphis have been selected to receive federal funding to go towards creating programs to put nurse practitioners in rural, underserved areas of the Mid-South. Both the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center have been selected to receive $2.7 million each. That funding will help create new nursing… Read More
A new study examining the impact of opioid use during pregnancy finds use is on the rise and Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a public health epidemic. According to researchers from the University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing and The University of Alabama’s School of Public Health, newborns hospitalized due to drug withdrawal (NAS), saw… Read More
Two nursing programs in Memphis have received $6 million to improve access to primary and maternal care and mental health services in parts of the Mid-South where care is spotty. The federal money from the Health Resources and Services Administration will be split between nursing programs at the University of Memphis and University of Tennessee… Read More
Perhaps the best predictor of significant dry eye disease (DED) after refractive surgery is the presence of DED before surgery. Therefore, the key to good decision-making in planning refractive surgery is to determine the severity of DED before you select and perform any procedure.
A team of doctors at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital are making history. They successfully created the world’s first voice box reconstruction, changing a little boy’s life. Cooper Kilburn, a 2-year-old from Adamsville, Tennessee, was born with Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome. This means his trachea and larynx were blocked and he would have no voice… Read More
A team of doctors at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis have made history. They successfully created the world’s first voice box reconstruction, changing a little boy’s life. Cooper Kilburn, a 2-year-old from Adamsville, Tennessee, was born with Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome. This means his trachea and larynx were blocked, giving him no voice… Read More
Late Friday, a clearly elated Dr. Jerome Thompson described the surgery at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital that gave Cooper Kilburn, 2, his voice, the first reconstructed child larynx and airway passage ever recorded. Thompson started the announcement by pulling out his cellphone and playing for TV cameras a clip – with the sound on high… Read More
A specialty license plate for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is ready to launch in Tennessee, but it needs enough preorders for production to begin. One thousand people need to preorder the license plate and pay a $35 deposit for production to start, according to UTHSC, which has its main campus in Memphis.… Read More
