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Floss-cutting held for first UTHSC College of Dentistry class in East Tennnessee

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has held the first dental education course in East Tennessee. The Expanded Functions for Dental Auxiliary (EFDA) continuing education course will take place in the UT Culinary Institute and Creamery on the UT Knoxville campus. The class was kicked… Read More


Tennessee health science chancellor says pandemic has created resilience in health care

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Dr. Peter Buckley took over as the 11th chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in February and recently made his first trip to Chattanooga to meet with area partners.


‘We were so damn lucky to find this’: Tennesseans close to developing radiation exposure drug

The Commercial Appeal

Scientists in Tennessee are developing a promising drug they desperately hope will never be used. It’s a treatment that could rescue people from gastrointestinal acute radiation syndrome. In blunt terms, radiation poisoning. “We were so damn lucky to find this mechanism that nature invented for us,” said Dr. Gabor Tigyi, a cell biologist and cancer researcher… Read More


Memphis People in Business: April 21

The Commercial Appeal

John Schorge on April 1 joined the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as the chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He comes from Tufts Medical Center in Boston where he he was employed for nearly three decades of experience.


Le Bonheur receives $500,000 grant for diabetes research

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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital received a $500,000 grant from the Children’s Foundation of Memphis (CFOM) to fund a study that seeks to determine if exercise can be used to prevent prediabetes from developing to type 2 diabetes. Ahlee Kim, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at UTHSC and Amit Lahoti, MBBS, MD, pediatric endocrinologist at Le… Read More


Memphis scientists instrumental in new, landmark COVID drug

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The next possible landmark COVID drug is so rich in Memphis DNA that if approved by the FDA, patent royalty checks will immediately flow to town, a legacy of the defunct GTx pharmaceutical company and scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center who created the structure. Sabizabulin was originally created as an anti-cancer… Read More


U.S. files suit against Memphis hospitals for unlawful kickbacks scheme involving local clinic

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The United States has filed suit against Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) and Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals (Methodist) for paying unlawful kickbacks to a local clinic in exchange for patient referrals. A release from the Department of Justice said the hospitals violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and Anti-Kickback Statue (AKS) by… Read More


Lyon College planning dental, veterinary medicine schools in Little Rock by Jaime Adame |

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Plans to start-up dental and veterinary medicine schools in Little Rock have been submitted by Lyon College to an accrediting body for review, the Batesville college announced Monday. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry accepts 23 Arkansas residents in each dental class, a spokeswoman for the Memphis campus said.