UTHSC In the Media


You Had a Seizure, No I Didn’t: The Accuracy of Patient Seizure Diaries

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Andrew Wilner is a professor of neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and a seasoned neurologist and epilepsy expert who has mastered the less conventional locum career path.


The quiet paradox of physician mental health and medication

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Physicians are trained, above all, to project steadiness. Long before we feel it, we learn to perform it. The lesson begins early in training.


How Tennessee can fix its rural doctor shortage | Opinion

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Imagine a Tennessee where a student in a rural county can explore health careers in high school, earn dual-enrollment credit, learn through immersive work at a local clinic or hospital, move smoothly through community college and UT, and reach medical school without losing the thread of home.


How Tennessee can fix its rural doctor shortage | Opinion

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Imagine a Tennessee where a student in a rural county can explore health careers in high school, earn dual-enrollment credit, learn through immersive work at a local clinic or hospital, move smoothly through community college and UT, and reach medical school without losing the thread of home.


How Tennessee can fix its rural doctor shortage | Opinion

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Imagine a Tennessee where a student in a rural county can explore health careers in high school, earn dual-enrollment credit, learn through immersive work at a local clinic or hospital, move smoothly through community college and UT, and reach medical school without losing the thread of home.


Exercise Training Benefits Patients With HIV Below the Surface

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A 16-week exercise training program showed broad benefits, including cellular damage repair and slowdown in epigenetic aging, in people with HIV (PWH), based on new data presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2026 Annual Meeting.


Early HIV Infection Linked to Nervous System Inflammation

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Cerebrospinal fluid samples show signs of inflammation in people with new HIV infections.


HIV Hits the Nervous System Early

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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from individuals with early HIV infection already showed signs of inflammation compared to samples from individuals without HIV, based on new data presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2026 Annual Meeting.