Health department and partners offer free HIV testing
Of the nation’s large metropolitan areas, Memphis has the second highest rate of newly diagnosed HIV cases. Only the Miami metropolitan area has a higher rate.
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Of the nation’s large metropolitan areas, Memphis has the second highest rate of newly diagnosed HIV cases. Only the Miami metropolitan area has a higher rate.
“One year ago, Tennessee faced an instant health emergency for pregnant people when we became a forced birth state,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.
LifeDoc Health plans to double its workforce to accommodate growing patient need.
ALSAC, the fundraising organization of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, says it has laid off 29 of its 1,700 employees.
The initiative includes a focus on recruiting and supporting Black, Indigenous and other students of color, women and other underrepresented individuals as engineering program candidates.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare announced Wednesday, June 14, that it has reached an agreement with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee regarding its employer-based and marketplace coverage.
Known as the overdose harm-reduction program, the Health Department is now providing kits with two doses of naloxone and 10 fentanyl test strips at community events.
A recent poll reports that people in Tennessee and the U.S. wait a month, on average, before they can get an appointment with a doctor, and patients spend on average eight hours each month coordinating health care for themselves and their family.
It’s been 16 months since two strokes left the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member unable to walk, speak or eat.
During the Hamilton Eye Institute’s 52nd annual Alumni/Residents’ Day on Friday, June 9, the school’s ophthalmologists will get to see something new.
“It’s been in the last couple of decades — particularly with children treated with brain tumors — that the survival rates have improved so much. And the focus is now not only just on a cure, but also on quality of life after,” said the study’s lead researcher.
Dr. Reginald Coopwood said the hospital’s aging infrastructure does not match the quality of care it provides.
St. Jude Heroes have raised more than $100 million since the event started in 2002. The goal for 2023 is to raise $15 million to help St. Jude advance its six-year, $12.9 billion strategic plan, which includes tripling its global investment to annually help more children with cancer from across the globe.
The new center honors the legacy of internationally known nurse theorist Margaret A. Newman, a native Memphian and UTHSC alumna and former faculty member who died in 2018.
“When we say we have the highest concentration of Black talent in health care and life science, the companies we’re recruiting to Memphis sit up and pay attention,” said Gwyn Fisher, chief economic development officer of the Greater Memphis Chamber.
Officials envision the new entity — the name UT Health was floated — as a hub of innovation that would attract top medical talent, grow research opportunities and offer new therapies, specialized surgeries and access to clinical trials.
The report from the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth found Shelby County ranked low in health, education and economics.
Patients will have the opportunity to host their own radio and TV shows, play games, watch live musical performances and interview celebrity guests.
Previous guest speakers in the luncheon’s 21-year history include Barbara Bush, Leslie Odom, Jr., Andie MacDowell, Octavia Spencer, Rob Lowe, Sally Field and Michael Douglas.
Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab launched a new Wishmakers program with residents being granted wishes from going to the top of the Bass Pro Pyramid to visiting Crosstown Concourse to enjoying a trip to Herb Parsons Lake.
Nearly half a million people contract Lyme disease annually nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This Mother’s Day, Kay Jewelers — which has raised nearly $97 million over the past quarter-century to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — gave gifts to the moms of pediatric patients.
Dr. Jason Vanatta of Methodist Transplant Institute was 13 when he found his calling in 1984, when a child made headlines after she received the world’s first heart-liver transplant at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Methodist Transplant Institute in Memphis continues to grow by expanding its donor service area and using harder-to-place organs.
Otis, a highly-trained Bernese Mountain dog, delights staff and patients alike as he makes his rounds at the hospital.