Tennessee is becoming an epicenter for nuclear medicine. By using radioactive isotopes to target specific cancer cells, researchers at ORNL and the UT Health Science Center are turning nuclear energy into a life-saving medical tool that can kill cancer without the broad cell damage caused by traditional chemo.
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A UT Health Science Center employee has strong words following the departure of multiple faculty members in the school’s occupational therapy department. “It’s not about the program or creating high-quality, future healthcare professionals. It’s about a cover-up,” the anonymous employee said.
Five of the seven faculty members of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s occupational therapy department have resigned over accusations that officials failed to address a colleague accused of verbally abusing students.
Republican Rep. Chris Hurt of Halls isn’t particularly known for impassioned floor speeches. That changed last week when he took the mic to decry working conditions at the University of Tennessee’s medical school in Memphis, where he said one department had seen an exodus of employees. Hurt did not mention that one of the departed… Read More
The results of the tests would be studied by the University of Tennessee.
ORNL is a leader both in developing advanced radiotherapies and in providing the radioisotopes needed for those therapies.
Scott Morris still has a little trouble wrapping his head around the enormity of a price tag that stretches beyond $900 million.
