A $1.5 billion health care construction boom sustains Memphis economyDec 19, 2012 — From the end of 2010 to 2015, investments in new buildings or renovation projects in the 14,000-acre Memphis Medical Center alone will total about $1.5 billion. The new Le Bonheur Children's Hospital cost $340 million. Demolishing the old Baptist Hospital building and developing the UT/Baptist Research Park is expected to cost $450 million by 2015. The new tower under construction now at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will cost $190 million. New classroom space at the Southern College of Optometry will cost $9.4 million.... more» |
Towns Named to Southern College of Optometry BoardDec 19, 2012 — Towns Named to Southern College of Optometry Board By Kate Simone Leticia “Tish” Towns, senior vice president of external relations for the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, has been na... more» |
MED Closes on Purchase of Pauline PropertiesDec 18, 2012 — MED Closes on Purchase of Pauline Properties The Regional Medical Center at Memphis has closed on its $2.2 million purchase of two buildings at more» |
GTx completes enrollment for phase III trials of EnobosarmDec 17, 2012 — Previously known as Ostarine, the drug treats the wasting of muscle in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The drug’s name was changed to Enobosarm earlier this year for the continuation of the trials. This summer, GTx received encouraging results in phase IIB trials of the drug.... more» |
Methodist, West Clinic, UTHSC cancer collaborative announces initial fundingDec 13, 2012 — A little more than a year after the announcement of a cancer care partnership among Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, The West Clinic and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the collaborative has awarded $200,000 in seed research funding to four UT cancer investigators.... more» |
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