A four-year study on care given to really sick patients after being discharged from the hospital reveals the importance of creating reimbursement systems that pay for total patient care, including rapid follow-ups.
President Trump's mandate to dramatically reduce kidney disease and expensive dialysis was greeted warmly in Memphis, where diabetes and hypertension are members of a deadly dynasty.
A biodegradable drug delivery implant startup based in Memphis has launched a private placement investment offering through MicroVentures.
With more bone fractures occurring in the warmer months, a medical device startup is piloting a cooler cast with Regional One Health.
Jenny Bartlett-Prescott and Jennie Robbins have been promoted at Church Health and will become the nonprofit's first chief operating officer and chief financial officer, respectively.
Memphis has become a mecca for medical training and medical device development partially due to the number of readily available human cadavers in the Medical District.
Church Health is funding a new position in partnership with the School of Social Work at the University of Memphis to enhance behavioral health services to the underserved and largely uninsured Latino community in Memphis.
The first graduates of a new family medicine residency are taking a Memphis-based, whole-person approach to primary care out to rural communities and across the country.
More than 400,000 homes in Shelby County could fall under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's stricter hazard standards for lead-contaminated dust from chipped or peeling lead-based paint.
As Lt. Gov. Randy McNally supports a federal rule change to increase Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals, Shelby Democrats continue their call for Medicaid expansion.
A sophomore at Collierville High School is traveling to Washington this summer to level with legislators about the high cost that comes with living with Type 1 diabetes.
The switch from store to clinic not only demonstrates a change in retail, but a trend in health care as well.
After having a stroke, when doctors found another blood vessel that could rupture in Steven Legens' brain, he was the first in Tennessee to enroll in a clinical trial for a product that could prevent another stroke.
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.