Clinical

Reimagining Residency

May 15, 2019 at 01:54 pm by admin

AMA's Next Push in Transforming Physician Training In 2013, the American Medical Association announced an ambitious effort to accelerate change in medical education. Starting.... Read More

St. Jude Gene Therapy Cures Babies with 'Bubble Boy' Disease

May 15, 2019 at 01:48 pm by admin

Gene therapy developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has cured infants born with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) according to a report released.... Read More

Severe Asthma Disparities

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:31 pm by admin

Study Finds Social Determinants Impact ED Usage Racial disparities between asthma prevalence, severity and morbidity have been well documented in numerous scholarly journals..... Read More

Small Towns, Big Fight for Continued Access to Care

Mar 14, 2019 at 03:11 pm by admin

Rural Hospitals Face Death by a Thousand Cuts More than 60 million Americans - nearly one in five residents - live in rural communities. While these small towns and wide swat.... Read More

Violence in U.S. Emergency Departments on the Rise

Mar 14, 2019 at 03:01 pm by admin

ACEP Survey Highlights Growing Risk By their very nature, emergency departments are high-stakes settings filled with vulnerable patients and frightened families. Increasingly,.... Read More

Genomic Medicine Making Impact

Feb 15, 2019 at 03:14 pm by admin

Progress of Research Is Raising Hopes Benefitting from an increase in genomic research during the past decade, Memphis-area researchers have been able to make significant str.... Read More

Updated Cholesterol Guidelines Take a Personalized Approach

Feb 15, 2019 at 03:01 pm by admin

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently released an update to the 2013 cholesterol guidelines, calling for more personalized ris.... Read More

Growing Challenges in a Shrinking Field

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:30 am by admin

Memphis' Dr. Lauren Ditta Is One of Nation's Few Neuro-ophthalmologists As one of only a very small number of pediatric neuro-ophthalmologists in the nation, in a field that m.... Read More

UTHSC College of Nurs-ing Introduces 12-Month Program

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:17 am by admin

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Nursing will transition its BSN program into a 12-month program of study beginning this fall. "We are so e.... Read More

Pillar Procedure Helping Treat Sleep Apnea

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:42 am by admin

Dr. M. Boyd Gillespie Finds Success in Reducing Snoring A Memphis physician is using a snoring procedure that he has found to be successful in treating patients with sleep apn.... Read More

Doctor Knows Exactly Why She Picked Geriatrics

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:20 pm by admin

'It's a Wonderful Population To Be Able To Help' Most doctors will go the extra mile for their patients . . . and then there's internist Dr. Sonal Mehr whose practice is geri.... Read More

West Cancer Center Charts 'New Model,' New Partnership

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:10 pm by admin

West Cancer Center, with its "40-year legacy of innovation," will begin 2019 on a new course, ending its affiliation with Methodist Le Bonheur and starting a relationship with.... Read More

'Next Generation' Brain Imaging Technology Installed at Le Bonheur

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:05 pm by admin

MEGIN, a leading manufacturer of functional brain imaging technology, has installed TRIUX™ neo, the next generation of magneto encephalography (MEG) technology for functional.... Read More

Thinking Outside the Box: Reaching Into Their World

Sep 17, 2018 at 12:51 pm by admin

Specialists Advise on How to Connect with Autistic Children According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Monitoring Ne.... Read More

Maryland Board Selects Memphis Physician to Join Investigative Team

Sep 17, 2018 at 12:06 pm by admin

Frederick M. Azar, MD, chief of staff at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics, has been selected to serve on the commission that will investigate the culture of the football program a.... Read More