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UTHSC study affirms link between air pollution, IQ loss, suggests folate could help
Research project shows air pollution in city's southeast corridor is the highest; folate may help buffer drop in IQ.
Jane Roberts
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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Business BOXLOT focuses on pop-up fun, retail with edgy urban vibe
IKEA Lounge installation will be the center of activities this weekend when the BOXLOT retail concept formally opens in the Memphis Medical District.
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Education U of M honors Memphis State 8 — 60 years later
Five of the original eight students who integrated Memphis State University in 1959 are still living and attended the event.
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EducationKappa Sigma fraternity pledges its part to stop campus sexual assaults
Kappa Sigma fraternity says it has role to play in stopping campus sexual assaults.
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Health Care Baptist part of trial for mitral heart valve replacement
Baptist-Memphis is among the sites approved to test Abbott Vascular’s Tendyne, a catheterized replacement for the heart’s complicated mitral valve.
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Health Care Baptist adding new hybrid OR, expects surge in nonsurgical valve replacements
Baptist makes investment after FDA approved transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures last month for all patients, not just the sickest.
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Metro University of Memphis president Rudd declines raise set to go into effect Oct. 1
University president David Rudd sends email to students, faculty declining raise he was given.
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Health Care St. Jude shows world its palliative success in symposium
St. Jude symposium is designed to help hospitals worldwide see what works in palliative care and develop it at home.
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Education Protest over Rudd’s salary, benefits fizzles on hot Friday afternoon
A student-led protest at the University of Memphis over President David Rudd’s bonus package and other issues sparked to life briefly Friday afternoon with chanting before fizzling.
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Health Care Grace Medical buys EndoEar Instruments, expects sales to rise
Grace Medical expects to be selling EndoEar's line of instruments in Europe late this fall.
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Health Care FDA ‘breakthrough’ status for synthetic meniscus bodes well for Memphis’ Active Implants
Active Implants’ president and CEO hopes to shave time off the FDA approval process for the company's synthetic meniscus device.
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Health Care Hot Springs Village has deep ties to MERI
Genesis is part of the culture in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, where more than 500 people have signed on to donate their bodies to a facility in Midtown Memphis.
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October 2019
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Health Care Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins with praise for consortium
The MBCC formed in 2014 when the rate of African American women in Memphis dying from breast cancer was 2:1 with white women.
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Education Rhodes receives nearly $2 million in NSF grants to bolster STEM
One of the National Science Foundation grants is designed to improve science, technology, engineering and math instruction in high-need public schools.
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Education Supreme Court Justice Breyer packs concert hall at Rhodes
Breyer delivered the Constitution Day lecture at Rhodes College.
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Business Chuck Hutton celebrates 100 years of selling cars, trucks and looking down road
DNA at Chuck Hutton Co. includes plenty of hustle, faith and family.
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Health Care Assistant surgeon general visit first in UTHSC history
The assistant surgeon general is a dentist and the nation's spokesman on oral health issues.
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Health Care St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital welcomes two staff members
St. Jude now includes two staff dogs for calming and cuddling.
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Metro Collage Dance hopes to build studio at Tillman, Sam Cooper
Collage Dance Collective, the ballet company that moved to Memphis from New York City in 2007, plans to build new offices and performance space at Tillman and Sam Cooper.
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Health CareSt. Jude researcher’s immune cell link holds promise for brain tumors
Researcher grew up in Lebanon, hearing the stories of famed native, Danny Thomas.
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Health Care Baptist participating in breast cancer 3-D mammogram trial
Participants are randomly selected for the 3-D mammogram. They won't know until they day they come in for their screening.
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Health CareBaptist provides a little ‘me time’ for cancer patients
Blossom Within is Baptist's way of offering respite to women undergoing cancer treatment.
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Education Southwest Tennessee Community College celebrating culture of sweat, equity
When Tracy Hall arrived in 2015, the college was in a seven-year enrollment decline. Numbers are up now and the associate's degrees it awarded in 2018 are up 41%.
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Health Care Memphis audience angry, anxious about Medicaid block grant proposal
Dozens speak out against Gov. Bill Lee's block grant plan for TennCare at the University of Memphis.
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Health Care Memphis nurses, St. Francis take top honors in nurses’ conference
Tennessee Nurses Association honors commitment, advocacy of state's nurses in conference at the Memphis Hilton.
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