A new study published online in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that people who skipped meals, fasted or ate their meals too closely together overall had higher risks of premature death. “At a time when intermittent fasting is widely touted as a solution for weight loss, metabolic health and disease prevention, our… Read More
“To have full practice authority as a nurse practitioner means that we will be able to give better access to healthcare,” said Dr. Emma Murray, a Nurse Practitioner. When there is a need, Dr. Emma Murray answers. “I had a brother when I was about 35-years-old that was injured in a motor vehicle accident. He… Read More
Dr. Van Snider was a pediatrician who was still seeing patients when he died, but who had just as big an impact teaching young kids to play basketball. Snider (from Knoxville) did his internship and residency at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences.
A special presentation on Music and Medicine. The program explores some of ways that music is being used synergistically with medicine and therapy to help patients recover.
A recently published article in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 247, Issue 17, September, 2022) improves our understanding of pain phenotypes in sickle cell disease. The study, led by Dr. Keesha Powell-Roach in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Tennessee, USA), describes how catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3) haplotypes… Read More
Baptist Health Sciences University is a step closer to adding a College of Osteopathic Medicine, which could help remedy the region’s shortage of primary care physicians. Dr. Peter Bell, a DO who has served as vice provost and dean of medical education at Baptist Health since 2021, expects the college will receive pre-accreditation status in… Read More
In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More
On a recent Thursday evening, a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) picked up a knife and slowly, carefully, began to cut. This student, Hanson Cowen, was slicing an onion in a class that is part of the school’s culinary medicine program.
