“It’s really like being in a movie,” said mom Ellen Shapiro Celosky. “I want to pinch myself sometimes because it really happened. I really have my own family, and it’s even better than I thought it could be.”
If the UT board of trustees also approves the college’s budget next month, all of UTHSC’s students would see a 2.9% tuition increase in the fall.
Dr. Scott Morris, a physician and Methodist minister, will step down as CEO of Church Health, the clinic he founded in 1987 that is today the largest faith-based, privately funded health clinic in the United States.
Stryker Corp. gathered some of its ankle-replacement patients at its Arlington campus to get feedback from those who have benefitted from the procedure.
The Stax Music Academy Band belted out a rousing rendition of the Bar-Kays’ “Soulfinger” as hundreds of guests gathered on Le Bonheur’s front lawn Wednesday, May 8.
Through the ShelbyCares Neighborhood Health Club program, more than 5,300 people have signed up for free workouts at neighborhood gyms, but more than 80% of them are women.
The hospital will build algorithms to measure tumors, and then teach the system to simultaneously label where they are located, standardizing the host of ways physicians describe where tumors are located.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UTHSC’s lab provided testing for Memphians across the city, from the Memphis Grizzlies to the city’s homeless community, and analyzed tests from the drive-thru testing site at Tiger Lane.
“It could be as simple as in the evening, ‘Hey, can you just check and make sure that Mama has dinner and that the phone is beside the bed, plugged in and charging.’”
The walk-in center for children will be built next to Alliance’ adult crisis-intervention center, which is being built on Broad Avenue, and create a centrally located wellness campus in the heart of Memphis.
Ken Tilashalski will succeed James Ragain, who has served as the UTHSC College of Dentistry dean since 2018 and presided over the opening of the Delta Dental of Tennessee Building on the Memphis campus.
Dr. Reginald Coopwood continues his community outreach to drum up support for transforming Shelby County’s public hospital into an academic medical center in partnership with UTHSC.
Black women make up the majority of patients at Choices’ freestanding birthing center in Midtown, whose midwifery practice has been delivering babies since 2017.
Prior to the chat, Jenna Bush Hager will tour FedExFamilyHouse, which provides free lodging for out-of-town-families with children being treated at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Under new federal guidelines, one Memphis company will have to slash emissions and another seems to be in the process of shutting down.
The Elvis Presley Trauma Center, one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers, is providing special kits to patients with bullet-related injuries while exploring a community-based clinic for Memphis to serve those patients after they’re discharged.
While walking to raise awareness for breast-cancer rates in Black women, Sista Strut recognized Danita Brown for her work in the community.
PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy, which makes specialty drugs costing upwards of $100,000 per box, is looking for a Shelby County home.
The free event for students of color in fifth grade through college centers on inspiring the next generation of medical and science professionals while helping to diversify the ‘white coat’ professions.
The revamped NICU is the first step in Le Bonheur’s larger, four-story, $95 million expansion.
Baptist Health Sciences University inaugurated Hampton Hopkins just as its College of Osteopathic Medicine opens. Its other programs range from nursing to biomedical sciences to public health.
The 100,000-square-foot college on Union Avenue in the Memphis Medical District will open its doors April 6 and welcome its first class of osteopathic medicine students in August.
The $80 million, which will be divided among 85 awardees statewide, represents just a portion of the total settlement money the state will receive from opioid producers, distributors, pharmacies and marketers over an 18-year period.
The kids’ area that is more wheelchair-friendly than a traditional playground is an expansion of The Well, Church Health’s wellness program for children.
Sean Astin has built a career on playing unlikely heroes. But beyond his celluloid life, he’s taken on the role of mental health advocate, carrying on the legacy of his late mother, the actress Patty Duke.