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Some of the wounds are obvious: a stump where a leg used to be, an arm that won't bend, words that won't form. But for Carol Bertsch, physical therapist for the Memphis Veterans Medical Center, the worst are the wounds without scars. They manifest in headaches, fatigue, a dull ache, irritability, anger, frustration -- a feeling that organs...

In an effort to remove blight surrounding its Uptown campus, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been issued permits to demolish two neighboring buildings. Within the next three weeks, the hospital will tear down an old service station on North Third Street and an old blood bank on Jackson Avenue. "The buildings have been abandone...

The Memphis neighborhood known as Eastview gives the appearance of lacking many things. Some of those things include lawnmowers, fix-it men and the occasional visit of a code enforcement officer. Most of the homes in Eastview, which sits directly north of East High School and an upscale shopping center, are more than 60 years old. Trash is...

Surgical treatment of neurological conditions and brain tumors has typically been impeded by the inability to precisely pinpoint the sensory functions affected by a lesion. While fMRI and EEG helped associate structure and some level of activity, neurological mapping during surgery has long been the primary way to determine function, until n...

If you are a cancer patient fighting for your life, the last thing you should have to worry about is where you’re going to stay when receiving treatment and how you’re going to pay for it. Thanks to a generous $2 million gift from the Harrah’s Foundation, the American Cancer Society’s Harrah’s Hope Lodge will soon be available to help less...

Richard Parks, president and CEO of West Tennessee Healthcare, announced the appointment of three vice presidents. Currie Sanders is now the Vice President/General Counsel. She has served as legal counsel for West Tennessee Healthcare since 2000. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and he...

Sharie Lewis, a registered nurse with the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, has become the first certified clinical transplant nurse (CCTN) in Tennessee. Lewis passed a rigorous exam offered through the American Board for Transplant Certification to earn her certification and this distinction....

Helping patients is one of the reasons Memphis area foot and ankle surgeon Christopher Hendrix, DPM, FACFAS, became a doctor. This week at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) 66th Annual Scientific Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Hendrix continues to strive for surgical excellence. The Conference is regarded as the nat...

The Jackson Clinic has added the specialty of Infectious Disease to their Internal Medicine Department. Infectious Disease specialists are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses caused by microorganisms. The physician hired to fill the role of Infectious Disease specialist at The Jackson Clinic is Dr. Melissa Anne Appleton....

Last year, administrators of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium requested a million dollars from the governor to fund "operational support." It may seem like a lot of money, but the Consortium represents much more than the latest in rodent—based research. Memphis—based UT Health Science Center is the leader in the field of mouse genetic...