Pneumonia Marker Linked to Higher Readmissions
… too few people were treated using the PCT algorithm, according to Muthiah Muthiah, MD, of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis …
UTHSC In the Media
American Lung Association Announces New Research Awards
Amali Samarasinghe, PhD of the The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is studying to find out why asthma patients were less likely to die of the influenza virus during the 2009 pandemic.
Sugar Is Definitely Toxic, a New Study Says
“Too much calorie intake is still the biggest problem,” says Dr. Mark Corkins, professor of pediatrics at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on nutrition.
Campus workers protest possible outsourcing
Employees and students from the UT Health Science Center and the University of Memphis banded together to show their disapproval of Governor Haslam’s proposal of outsourcing state jobs on the corner of Union Avenue and East Street during Thursday’s protest.
Live! Just as We Are Photo Exhibit
On Thursday, October 29, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center hosts a free public reception for the “Live! Just as We Are” photo exhibition of African-American women who are breast cancer survivors.
Memphis Research Explores Effects of Mixing Caffeine and Alcohol
Dopico [has] studied the effect of alcohol on the brain for the past 20 years and is a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, where he’s also the chair of the Department of Pharmacology.
American Heart Association, Amerigroup to offer free CPR training at UTHSC
The event kicks off Monday, October 19, at 10 a.m. at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Student Alumni Center Dining Hall at 800 Madison Avenue in Memphis.
R. Lebron Cooper Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology at UTHSC
Lebron Cooper, MD, has been named chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at UTHSC.