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Kevin Todd has been named chief financial officer (CFO) for Methodist North Hospital. Todd joined Methodist Healthcare in 1996 and has held positions in corporate accounting and financial analysis. He served as director of Finance at Le Bonheur Childrenﾒs Medical Center from 2002-2005 before being named CFO of Methodist South Hospital in 200...

The Friends of the University of Memphis Libraries and the U of M Libraries will host a public program about Victorian Village presented by Willy Bearden on Jan. 30 from noon-1 p.m. in the McWherter Library, room 226. The public program is free. Bearden, a documentary filmmaker, has authored a number of local films and books. Recently, he...

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis plans to spend $13.9 million to improve its emergency department, joining several other Memphis-area hospitals that are investing in new equipment and improved facilities in response to a growing demand for urgent care. Baptist has asked the state Health Services and Development Agency for permission to mov...

Ever since the city's emergence as a major Mississippi river port in the 19th century, the Memphis neighborhood now known as Victorian Village has seen it all - affluence and neglect, civil wars and world wars, lavish parties and devastating plagues. And now, thanks to a $10,000 community enhancement grant from the state of Tennessee, Memph...

On Friday, Dec. 7, the University of Tennessee (UT) College of Pharmacy began what one alumnus called ﾓanother chapter in the continuation of a dream.ﾔ More than 250 well-wishers crowded into the heated tent on a chilly Pearl Harbor Day morning as UT president John Petersen and College of Pharmacy dean Dick Gourley led the groundbreaking f...

Memphis-based pharmaceutical company GTx Inc. has filed a document that could allow it to issue up to $100 million in stock, but a company spokesman said Wednesday that the firm has no current plans to do so. The "shelf filing" that GTx recently sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission gives GTx flexibility to go to the markets to rai...

While talk of biotechnology in Memphis evokes images of brilliant people peering down microscopes, when it comes to job creation, a better image is the FedEx Express sorting hub. Thousands of times each day FedEx package handlers load boxes of surgical instruments, medical devices and tissue samples to be delivered around the world. Elsewher...

"There are challenges here, but our story is to look at challenges as opportunities," said Rev. Andy Andrews, who recently came to St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. "Wow," Andrews said, glancing around the cavernous worship space. "It's kinda crazy to believe I'm even here. But that's part of the mystery and movement of God." On Dec. 17, An...

When the 19-story Baptist Medical Center was imploded two years ago, it marked the departure of Baptist Memorial Hospital from Downtown, at least in the minds of many. But Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. continues to have a major presence in the neighborhood, with long-term plans that might even include an expansion of clinical care. "...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's new cyclotron has all the stuff of science fiction -- particle beams and radioactive atoms -- but researchers there assure it's only science and that it will help them fight cancer. The cyclotron is one of the many new components the hospital added when it opened the $134 million Chili's Care Center...