Lee Schwartzberg Presents Phase III Findings

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:52 am by admin

West Cancer Center's Executive Director, Lee Schwartzberg, MD, FACP presented key findings from a phase III study to the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.... Read More

Methodist Healthcare Foundation Presents 2018 Living Awards

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:50 am by admin

The Methodist Healthcare Foundation held its 36th annual Living Awards Benefit at The Peabody last month to honor "individuals and organizations who exemplify the faith-based,.... Read More

BlueCross Names Director of Corporate Governance

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:48 am by admin

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has promoted Jill Langston to director of corporate governance and corporate secretary. Langston will manage and coordinate the business of t.... Read More

UTHSC Professor Receives DOD Prostate Cancer Research Grant

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:47 am by admin

Jay Fowke, PhD, MPH, chief of the Division of Epidemiology and professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC),.... Read More

Saint Francis Physical Therapist Earns Certification

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:46 am by admin

Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett physical therapist Joann Igharas has achieved certification from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialists (ABPTS) as a Board Certifie.... Read More

UTHSC Names Associate Vice Chancellor Student Affairs

Sep 17, 2018 at 11:44 am by admin

Darrylinn Todd, EdD, has been named associate vice chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). In this.... Read More

UTHSC, VA Memphis Participate in National Blood Pressure Study

Aug 16, 2018 at 10:05 am by admin

Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and the Memphis Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center were part of the SPRINT MIND (Systolic Blood Pres.... Read More

Improvement at VA Memphis Described as 'Phenomenal'

Aug 14, 2018 at 05:11 pm by admin

Acting Secretary Credits Facility's New Leadership Team Acting VA Secretary Peter O'Rourke describes the quick turnaround at the Memphis VA Medical Center as "nothing less tha.... Read More

Ex-Professor Realizes Dream Of Creating Medical Device

Aug 14, 2018 at 05:06 pm by admin

It probably was inevitable that Esra Roan would find a job doing what she does in what she calls "no man's land." Roan admits that while earning a PhD she was especially inter.... Read More

Orthopedist Cites Key Changes in Sports Medicine

Aug 14, 2018 at 05:02 pm by admin

Owen Tabor Jr.: Changing Coaches' Minds a Key Unlike many children who aspired early to follow a parent-physician into the field of medicine, Owen Tabor Jr. was a relatively.... Read More

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes May Hit Specialists Hardest

Aug 14, 2018 at 04:59 pm by admin

Changes to patient evaluation and management (E/M) documentation requirements and reimbursement are among the most notable proposed initiatives in the 2019 Medicare Physician.... Read More

Stem Cell Therapy? Easy Does It

Aug 14, 2018 at 04:55 pm by admin

There is a brief scene in the 1976 movie The Outlaw Josey Wales in which a snake-oil salesman offers Clint Eastwood's character a bottle of a cure-all elixir. Only $1 a bottle.... Read More

Updating the Way to Pay: Additional Proposed Changes to PFS, QPP

Aug 14, 2018 at 04:53 pm by admin

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the proposed rule for the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP). Billing the ch.... Read More

'Mercy' Fundraiser To Be Held August 25

Aug 14, 2018 at 04:48 pm by admin

The Memphis Mission of Mercy, a nonprofit organization that organizes surgical missions to rural parts of the Philippines, will hold its inaugural fundraising gala at 6:30 Sat.... Read More

St. Baldrick's Foundation Grants Awarded to St. Jude, UTHSC Researchers

Aug 14, 2018 at 04:46 pm by admin

The St. Baldrick's Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to funding childhood cancer research, has awarded more than $650,000 in new grants to support researchers at St. Jude Chil.... Read More