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.
Daxor Corporation (Nasdaq: DXR), the global leader in blood volume measurement technology, today announces Daxor’s BVA-100 diagnostic will be featured in a MedAxiom Academy webinar – Best Practices for Using Blood Volume Analysis to Reduce Heart Failure LOS, Readmissions, Mortality and Costs on November 17, 2022, at 1pm ET. The panel of distinguished speakers includes… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center held its first investiture ceremony for a chancellor Friday, Nov. 4, at the Cannon Center Downtown. UTHSC formally conferred the authority and symbols of the office on Dr. Peter Buckley, who became the 11th chancellor of UTHSC in February. “There is much to be done, and we will do… Read More
