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Helena Health Foundation has donated $25,000 to The MED Foundation for a trauma training and on-call center at The Regional Medical Center at Memphis. This expansion will provide a working, teaching and recharging area for trauma faculty and staff. The hospital has one of the three busiest trauma centers in the nation. Dr. P. Vasudevan, ex...

James L. Robinson III, the CEO of the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, thinks often of the men who had his name before him. The son and grandson of veterans, Robinson saw firsthand how they depended upon hospitals like the one he now leads. Robinson keeps their photographs in his office, looking to them for inspiration as he charts...

Dr. Russell Chesney, chair of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been selected for the top honor bestowed by the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. He will receive the Ira Greifer Award on Sept. 1 at a ceremony in New York. Chesney is being recognized for the research he leads at UTHSC to impr...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthCare is looking at opening a Downtown office combining 120 employees from Le Bonheur's community health and wellness programs. The Center City Development Corp. on Wednesday will consider a grant application for as much as $75,000 for tenant improvements for Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being at 50 Peabody...

Dirt will begin to move before the end of the year to make way for Southwest Tennessee Community College's new $16.75 million building that will help train more students for jobs in nursing and biotechnology. The three-story Nursing, Natural Sciences and Biotechnology Building will be built at 675 Union, the site formerly occupied by Inter...

At the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago earlier this summer, researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) revealed findings of a pediatric brain tumor study using an experimental drug that targets the underlying genetic makeup of the t...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is ranked as one of the top institutions in the annual "Best Places to Work in Academia" list by The Scientist magazine. This is the fifth consecutive year St. Jude made the publication's top 10 list of institutions in the United States. The hospital ranks second in the country behind Princeton Universit...

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital installed a 3T intraoperative MRI in the new facility's 15-room surgical suite in June. With 3 Tesla strength, the iMRI features the most powerful magnetic resonance imaging technology available  a great addition to Le Bonheur's nationally renowned neurosurgical program. The 3T iMRI weighs 9 tons and was lif...

Moving in stealth-like fashion, the new leadership at The MED has begun upgrading hospital rooms to single-bed, private lodging with new flat-screen televisions. The conversion of the semi-private rooms at The Regional Medical Center at Memphis is occurring unit by unit at three-week intervals. The MED is investing about $160,000 in the end...

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has made a long-term commitment to recruit and retain minority students and faculty with part of a $3.4 million federal grant to fund the UT College of Pharmacys Minority Center of Excellence. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service awarded the grant in June. The award will be paid...