The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, based in Memphis, launched a new mobile health unit meant to serve rural communities, UT leaders said on Tuesday. In a release, they said the new mobile health unit would start serving Lake County and Lauderdale County — both mostly rural areas located in West Tennessee.
Just before the old health department building on Jefferson was demolished in 2021, the new health department director went back to the fifth floor to see her former office one more time. Her favorite map — a gift from a colleague when she got her first job at the health department in 2013 — was… Read More
Shelby County Commissioners closed a more than nine-hour meeting Monday without identifying a way to fund debt service for a new Regional One Health campus or two new high schools. J. Richard Walker III, chair of emergency medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, told commissioners Monday that out of all the hospitals downtown,… Read More
The Core PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s PR Xchange Awards Competition.
Research involving artificial intelligence (AI) – performed in the late 1990s by Ken Tobin and others at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – is behind technology now being used at a drug store chain’s health care clinics to provide sight-saving telemedical diagnoses to hundreds of thousands of diabetic patients. Tobin became involved in the automated diagnosis of eye diseases when… Read More
Vitalant, formerly Lifeblood, relies on thousands of volunteers to donate blood, plasma, and platelets throughout the year to help patients in 4 Mid-South area hospitals. Our awesome volunteers roll up their sleeves and selflessly give of themselves to save the lives of loved ones, family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, fellow church members, and yes, even perfect… Read More
In 2003, they founded the “National Suicide and the Black Church Conference.” This year’s conference (the 10th one) is slated for Wednesday, June 14, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Thursday, June 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Southwest Tennessee Community College, 5983 Macon Cove. The conference is an extension to what the… Read More
University of Tennessee Health Science Center will be hosting its annual Cataract-A-Thon for the sixth year in a row. During this time, physicians will perform cataract surgeries at no cost to restore the sight to 25 individuals, who otherwise could not afford the procedure.
