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Health Care With more than 45 medical device companies based in the area, Memphis Bioworks Foundation and its ZeroTo510 business accelerator are building on successes to cultivate medical startups and help them thrive in Memphis. -
Health Care St. Jude latest hospital to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has joined the national movement to pay employees a living wage. -
Health Care Methodist Hospital’s $275M tower nears completion
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare capped its centennial year with the dedication of its 450,000-square-foot, $275 million tower nearing completion at Bellevue and Eastmoreland. -
Health Care Cancer Moonshot: Baptist shares in $9M national cancer research initiative
Sitting at the dining room table at his home in Bartlett, Dan Merrill, 67, holds his smartphone away from his reading glasses. -
Health Care Inaugural St. Jude Global Alliance meeting brings 52 countries to Memphis
As 167 health care providers, researchers and foundation executives from 52 different countries made their way into the Marlo Thomas Center for Global Education and Collaboration auditorium, a slideshow depicted photos from their journey. One group was spotted at B.B. King’s Blues Club the night before, others took pictures upon their arrival at Memphis International Airport, and many took pictures at their final destination, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. -
Health Care New ambulance operator is in hiring mode for 2019 launch
Louisiana-based Acadian Ambulance Service will take on the workforce and 30-plus ambulances of Emergency Mobile Health Care LLC Feb. 1 as Acadian completes acquisition of the homegrown Memphis company. -
Health Care Haslam appoints advisory board for UT Health Science Center
Gov. Bill Haslam appointed a five-member advisory board for Memphis-based University of Tennessee Health Science Center, including U.S. District Court Judge Mark Norris and Michael Ugwueke, president and CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, according to the governor’s office. -
Health Care Historic $50M donation to fund St. Jude Family Commons
Chandler Howard was a freshman in high school when he started getting headaches, neck and back pain. -
Health Care St. Jude Memphis Marathon fundraising gets boost from corporate teams
A large team from Mitsubishi Electric’s Memphis manufacturing facility will be among the record-setting 26,000 participants, 40,000 spectators and 4,000 volunteers at this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend. -
Health Care Le Bonheur Children’s begins search for new president, CEO
After 12 years of leading Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, president and CEO Meri Armour plans to retire in 2019. -
Health Care ‘They love them as their own’
Amanda and David Bass’ chances of having a healthy pregnancy were not good. Their fertility specialist told them there was a 75 percent chance that Amanda and/or the baby would not make it. -
Health Care Rock your socks off for St. Jude
Oak Hall and Lansky Bros. are collaborating on a unique project that gives back to the patients of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. A set of three pairs of collectible socks is available just in time for the holidays, and sales benefit St. Jude. -
Health Care Shelby County offering free flu shot clinic Dec. 5
The Shelby County Health Department is offering free flu shots Wednesday, Dec. 5, as part of a statewide vaccination event. -
Health Care Medtronic’s alternative to opioids for back pain? Balloons, cement
One morning, Caroline Harris, 70, woke up with severe pain in her lower back. Was it the exercise she did? Picking up that heavy object? Climbing a flight of stairs? -
Health Care Pioneering St. Jude researcher Dr. Brian Sorrentino dies
Dr. Brian Sorrentino, a longtime researcher and director of experimental hematology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has died. -
Health Care UTHSC research team among 2018 CORNET Award winners
Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center were among the 2018 recipients of The Delta Clinical and Translational Science Consortium’s Collaborative Research Network (CORNET) Awards. -
Health Care Golf, military service foster friendship sealed with kidney donation
Loosely holding a rolled-up program in his hand, Dustin Lehmann tapped it on his knee as if playing along with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Veteran’s Day performance Saturday night. -
Health Care Exclusive: ALSAC undertakes digital transformation, facing disruptions in fundraising
From digital payment transactions to streaming television shows, advances in technology over the past several decades have changed the way the world does business, consumes media and even gives to charity. ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, realizes that to keep up, it too must evolve. -
Health Care Methodist approved to administer new cancer treatment, first in the region
Methodist Healthcare’s Blood and Marrow Transplant Center has been approved to administer a new type of cancer treatment unique to the Mid-South. -
Health Care FedExFamilyHouse triples in size with completed expansion
When families have children in the hospital, the last thing they want to worry about is finding a place to stay nearby. -
Health Care With two employees affected by cancer, local business raises money, awareness
It was an emotional moment for both of them. -
Health Care Smartphone app creates variation on workplace wellness
A local tech company is harnessing the power of data and gamification to improve employee wellness and reduce smartphone distraction in the workplace. Memphis-based Extracon Science LLC recently announced the launch of EngageMode, an app which has been in beta testing and is rolling out with current customers. -
Health Care New health insurance company enters Memphis market
Oscar Insurance Corp. has expanded its Tennessee footprint to include residents in the Memphis metro counties of Shelby, Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale and Haywood. -
Health Care Baptist Women’s Health offers mammograms on the go
Though it may resemble a truck from the outside, the interior of Baptist Women’s Health Center’s new mobile mammogram unit is something else entirely. -
Health Care Thesis competition uses Harry Potter references to make scientific research relatable
Three minutes. That’s how long a group of Ph.D. candidates will have Friday night to explain the years of research and hundreds of pages that make up their dissertations.
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