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What Progress Have We Made in Mitigating Racial Disparities in Stroke

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The field of stroke has advanced its care approaches for these patients in the past couple decades. Despite the progress that has been made in this field, though, there is a big challenge that lingers for patients and is often the focus of conversations in the clinical setting: racial disparities in stroke care.


First Black UTHSC graduate visits his old stomping grounds

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Dr. Alvin Crawford, the first Black graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, returned to Memphis Monday, Feb. 26, to visit with students, present research and sign his recently published autobiography.


What Your Favorite Comfort Show Says About You

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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


Effects on blood pressure, heart rate similar with epinephrine nasal spray, autoinjector

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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


UTHSC researchers part of $20M statewide collaboration to develop new cancer treatment

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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.


ECSU-UT pact gives students path to health sciences Ph.D.

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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


UTHSC Dental College will ‘Give Kids a Smile’

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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


UTHSC to give free dental services to students

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UTHSC to give free dental services to students