Crosstown Back & Pain Institute Welcomes Dr. Leland Berkwits

Jul 16, 2022 at 12:20 am by pjeter

Crosstown Back & Pain Institute, the Mid-South’s only multi-disciplinary pain management clinic, is proud to announce ACGME fellowship-trained spine and pain special.... Read More

Wilson Named Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Director of Hamilton Eye Institute at UTHSC

Jul 16, 2022 at 12:17 am by pjeter

Matthew W. Wilson, MD, FACS, has been named the Barrett G. Haik Endowed Chair for the Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Hea.... Read More

The Tennessee Pharmacists Association Recognizes Memphis-area 2022 Award Recipients

Jul 13, 2022 at 08:36 pm by pjeter

Awardees Honored for Excellence in Patient Care and the Profession of Pharmacy   Memphis — The Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA), the only pr.... Read More

Conservatives on Supreme Court, as Expected, End Nationwide Right to Abortion

Jun 24, 2022 at 01:37 pm by pjeter

  By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News  The Supreme Court on Friday formally overturned its 49-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade decision, and with.... Read More

AMA Adopts New Public Health Policies to Improve Health of Nation

Jun 14, 2022 at 09:41 am by pjeter

CHICAGO - The American Medical Association (AMA), the premier national physician organization in the country, voted this week to adopt new policies aimed at improving the heal.... Read More

U.S. News Reveals the 2022-2023 Best Children’s Hospitals

Jun 14, 2022 at 12:03 am by pjeter

Southeast region rankings included   U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has revealed the 2022-2023 Best C.... Read More

AMA Adopts New Policy Aimed at Addressing Public Health Disinformation

Jun 13, 2022 at 06:31 pm by pjeter

CHICAGO – With the spread of disinformation continuing to negatively impact efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and sowing distrust in vaccines, public health mitiga.... Read More

NIH’s All of Us Research Program Restarts Nationwide Journey Tour after Pandemic Pause; Enrolling New Participants for Historic Biomedical Database 

Jun 07, 2022 at 07:46 pm by pjeter

    FIRST STOP: Juneteenth Concert — Orpheum Theatre; 203 S Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. CT on Wednesday, June 15  &n.... Read More

“Bridge Therapy” May Benefit Some Children with High-risk Neuroblastoma

Jun 06, 2022 at 03:15 am by pjeter

Additional therapy between two standard phases of treatment may be especially effective in patients with stable metastatic cancer.   Approximately half of children with.... Read More

State Doctors Debate Healthcare Policies at TMA Annual Meeting

Jun 01, 2022 at 08:17 am by pjeter

Tennessee’s Top Advocacy Organization Announces 2022-2023 Officers   NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Medical Association assembled nearly 130 of its.... Read More

Baptist to Expand Brain & Spine Center of Excellence with Cedar Gate Technologies

May 18, 2022 at 06:00 am by pjeter

Baptist Memorial Health Care’s Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence is expanding its collaboration with Cedar Gate Technologies (Cedar Gate), a leading value-b.... Read More

FDA Expands Eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Booster for Children 5 through 11 Years

May 17, 2022 at 10:19 am by pjeter

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, authorizing the use of a single booster do.... Read More

No Prison Time for Tennessee Nurse Convicted of Fatal Drug Error

May 14, 2022 at 10:57 pm by pjeter

By Brett Kelman, Kaiser Health News  RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee nurse convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error, whose trial became a rally.... Read More

Destigmatizing and Demystifying Testing Tools to Fight the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic

May 14, 2022 at 12:03 am by pjeter

Our country and community are in crisis. As of January 2020, 49 U.S. states have reported fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills, with deaths attributed to such pills in 38 states..... Read More

Is Paxlovid, the Covid Pill, Reaching Those Who Most Need It? The Government Won’t Say

May 12, 2022 at 02:35 pm by pjeter

By Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News As the nation largely abandons mask mandates, physical distancing, and other covid-19 prevention strategies, elected officials a.... Read More