The MBCC formed in 2014 when the rate of African American women in Memphis dying from breast cancer was 2:1 with white women. 

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. 

Active Implants’ president and CEO hopes to shave time off the FDA approval process for the company's synthetic meniscus device.

Grace Medical expects to be selling EndoEar's line of instruments in Europe late this fall.

St. Jude symposium is designed to help hospitals worldwide see what works in palliative care and develop it at home.

Saint Francis hospitals in Bartlett and Memphis are among 26 in Tennessee and seven in southwest Virginia that have filed a civil lawsuit in Greene County (Tenn.) Circuit Court against the manufacturers, distributors and retailers of opioid-based drugs.

Memphis medical device developer Entac Medical is among initial businesses backed by new statewide early-stage capital provider, TennesSeed Fund.

Baptist makes investment after FDA approved transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures last month for all patients, not just the sickest.

Baptist-Memphis is among the sites approved to test Abbott Vascular’s Tendyne, a catheterized replacement for the heart’s complicated mitral valve.

St. Jude now includes two staff dogs for calming and cuddling.

Counselor says 80% of fragile people give clear warning signs before taking their own lives.

Research project shows air pollution in city's southeast corridor is the highest; folate may help buffer drop in IQ.

Joint replacement surgeons celebrate 1,000th robotic surgery at St. Francis in gathering for high school students.

A free, 1 ½-hour First Responder Coaching seminar for the public will be held Thursday, Sept. 12, at Bornblum Jewish Community School.

St. Jude is first in the world to acquire a 1.1-gigahertz magnet. In a month, it will be ready to use.

Three years after her diagnosis, LáDeia Joyce is in a pharmaceutical ad campaign and on the public speaking circuit. 

Methodist is using technology to keep stroke patients in hospitals close to home and provide the care needed when they are most critical. 

Tennessee Carriers Inc., a Memphis-based broker of non-emergency medical transportation, expects to serve about 100 riders a day initially through a new pilot partnership with Lyft.

Federal money will be used to train nurse practitioners to serve in mental health, OB/GYN in Delta, West Tennessee

Researchers around the globe are tapping into St. Jude Cloud, a repository of the millions of molecular structures that make up the hospital's patients.

Lifesigns moves to manage growth; opens new office on Kirby Parkway.

Regional One Health's Center for Innovation invites SweetBio to share the benefits of the hospital's intellectual property for a share of its equity. 

New UT researcher receives $1.53 million grant for work in autism, schizophrenia. 

African-Americans donate fewer organs than most racial groups. But their need for organs far surpasses the supply.

Dr. Glen Steele, who was enshrined into the National Optometry Hall of Fame this summer, has no plans to slow down his work at Southern College of Optometry.