Well, let’s start with what we mean by comfort show. “It’s not as simple as saying, ‘Oh, it’s something happy you watch when you’re sad,” says Jessi Gold, MD, psychiatrist and chief wellness officer for the University of Tennessee System. Instead, “comfort” is kind of a stand-in for whatever you’re hoping to get out of your TV… Read More
Four pooled studies noted similar pharmacodynamic performance for epinephrine delivered via nasal spray or autoinjector, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting. These similarities persisted whether the spray was delivered in opposite nostrils or in the same nostril, Jay A. Lieberman, MD, FACAAI, associate professor, University of… Read More
Efficient cancer treatment with minimal side effects, an education framework, and a workforce pipeline — these are the lofty goals of a leadership group that includes four researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), who recently were awarded $20 million.
Elizabeth City State University has entered a partnership with the University of Tennessee to give students in ECSU’s Department of Natural Sciences an avenue to earning a graduate certificate or doctorate in health sciences. Representatives from the UT Health Science Center recently toured ECSU for two days visiting facilities and meeting with students to encourage… Read More
Students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry are gearing up to give free dental care to more than 100 middle and high school students from Freedom Preparatory Academy on Monday, Feb. 26, as part of Give Kids a Smile Day. For almost a decade, the college has participated in the… Read More
“This anecdote is one I can confirm that we hear from those direct service providers, shelter providers,” said Meiman, the alliance’s planning director. She said they have started working with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine to help teach students social determinants in health care classes.
Shelley White-Means, PhD, a professor of Health Economics in the Department of Interprofessional Education and the director of the Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research (CHEER) at UT Health Science Center, recently received a $1.5 million, four-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to explore the root causes… Read More
