Bartlett Easy Way to be transformed into urgent care center
A Memphis emergency physician is transforming the vacant Easy Way grocery store in Bartlett into an urgent care center.
A Memphis emergency physician is transforming the vacant Easy Way grocery store in Bartlett into an urgent care center.
Dr. Karen C. Johnson is among principal investigators on a six-year nationwide diabetes prevention clinical trial that released findings today at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions in San Francisco.
Memphis medical device company SweetBio recently received FDA clearance.
Were it not for matching American Diabetes Association T-shirts, it would be hard to distinguish between kids playing just to play and those learning how to manage their diabetes.
After doctors in Jamaica told a mother they could not repair her infant son’s heart defect, she took to the internet to make a plea that led her to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
An $11.3 million initiative to reduce the rise in Hepatitis C infections tied to the opioid epidemic will fund local harm reduction efforts such as centers where users can exchange used needles for sterile ones.
After Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett backed away from its plans to build a free-standing emergency department in Arlington, it has created a strategy to draw patients from surrounding areas based on service.
Boxing classes across the Mid-South are slowing and even reversing the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that results in the loss of hand-eye coordination, posture, reflexes and other motor skills.
A new cancer treatment is giving lymphoma patients who are not responsive to chemotherapy another option than hospice care.
Evidence shows getting the flu as a child could have lifelong implications on how well a person's immune system fights influenza and other viruses.
Local doctors at Methodist University Hospital have teamed up for a multidisciplinary approach that removes brain tumors through the nose, which doesn't leave a scar across a patient's face or head.
Three years ago, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center got cut out of the state's higher education funding for campus operations, and plans to lobby the governor's office to reinstate its share.
The Memphis VA Medical Center is one of 22 VA rehabilitation centers across the country selected as a test site for Microsoft’s new Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for people with limited mobility.
While local health care systems do not want to be left behind as other industries are disrupted by technology, they have not yet figured out how to prepare for the innovations that are still unknown.
Instead of each health care system conducting its own, separate assessment of the community's greatest health needs, this year, they are coming together to provide a more comprehensive and inclusive snapshot.
A private-equity firm has bought controlling interest of the rapidly growing CrossRoads Extremity Systems, which was founded in Memphis less than five years ago.
Experts discuss the changing global food industry and how innovation is the key to producing healthy foods that merge with consumers' desires.
UnitedHealthcare is striving to improve the health of its members by giving $1 million in grants to seven area nonprofits to address the social determinants of health.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare brought maternity services to Germantown 25 years ago this Mother's Day. In the years since, more than 88,000 babies have been delivered at Germantown Methodist Hospital.
Milla's House is named for a Memphis girl who died of Batten disease in 2016 at age 6. Her sister just died from the same disease, starting a new grieving process for their parents and family.
Susan G. Komen Memphis-MidSouth Mississippi has awarded nearly $500,000 to local entities addressing the most critical breast cancer needs in the community.
Medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have found a creative way to balance the mental and emotional stress of becoming a doctor.
The latest summit convening more than 200 people working to find a multi-approach remedy to the opioid epidemic emphasized individual stories of those affected over statistics and data.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation has made David Carnes Park in Whitehaven the first example of how its BlueCross Healthy Place initiative can turn a park into a true community asset.
A local nonprofit pharmacy that is using blockchain to ensure the traceability of expensive, donated chemotherapy drugs is now part of a multi-region effort to secure the nation's drug supply chain.