The definition of “first aid” is growing given that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience a mental health crisis in a given year. 

Recent Shelby County Schools special education graduates have been preparing for jobs in health care this year through Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's expanded partnership with Project SEARCH. 

In the 12 years Meri Armour has led the children's hospital, Le Bonheur has grown from a community hospital to a national center of pediatric innovation. 

Addiction and substance abuse professionals are gathering at the Shelby County Opioid Summit this week to address what they define as a genetic brain disorder that has turned into a public health crisis. 

Memphis-based biopharmaceutical company GTx Inc. and a San Diego-based biotech firm are planning a reverse merger that will end GTx’s Memphis operations.

A partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a Downtown housing developer could bring the first new apartments to be constructed in the Memphis Medical District in decades. 

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital announces $38 million expansion of its fast-growing Heart Institute.

When families are struggling to pay rent, they don't always have the money for medications or even the gas to get to the doctor. Le Bonheur is addressing these challenges with a new program that sees the resolution of issues at home all the way through. 

Baptist, Christ Community open a physical clinic in the Medical District to complement an existing mobile health care clinic, thus providing a one-stop shop for the homeless population. 

Good Shepard Pharmacy's sister company RemediChain announced Thursday it has officially begun accepting individual donations of oral chemotherapy prescriptions as part of its chemotherapy reclamation program.

West Cancer Center's split with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare comes with the purchase of its center on Wolf River Boulevard from Methodist for $51 million. 

Brendan McDonough, the firefighter who survived the 2013 Yarnell, Arizona, wildfire that killed 19 of his fellow firefighters, is in Memphis Tuesday to talk about the importance of mental health for first responders. 

Despite past years of racial discrimination, the children's research hospital that treats patients regardless of race, religion or ability to pay, honored the city of Memphis' 200-year milestone. 

As the country looks back on the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a year ago, local counselors report an increasing number of calls to a youth crisis/suicide hotline. 

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is ending its partnership with West Cancer Center in favor of forming a new comprehensive cancer institute.

Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis creates a welcoming environment for newborns and birth moms, but its new facility may also attract more physicians and their expecting patients.

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center has decided to bring food service in-house, recruiting local food truck favorites and popular chains such as Starbucks, Chick-fil-A and Coletta's. 

Along with major investment like the redevelopment of the former Wonder Bread factory, the Memphis Medical District saw a surge of small business activity in 2018. 

Without a framework for insurance reimbursement, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Mobile Stroke Unit is being funded for another year through philanthropy. 

The new advisory board overseeing the University of Tennessee Health Science Center approved its bylaws and elected a chairman at its inaugural meeting Thursday.

From resident to president, the career of Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital's new leader comes full circle. 

A procedure to insert the world's first commercially-approved heart device for babies weighing less than two pounds was performed at Memphis' Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. 

After canceling its inaugural advisory board meeting in Nashville last month, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has rescheduled the historic meeting for next week in Memphis. 

Infant deaths from critical heart diseases have declined 33 percent in eight states where the American Heart Association was successful in passing laws to require mandatory testing for heart defects before newborns leave the hospital. 

More housing for the families of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patients could be coming soon to the Pinch District Downtown.