NASHVILLE, TN — The Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center/Tennessee State University Cancer Partnership (MVTCP) is focused on the shared goal of eliminating cancer disparities through a proportional approach encompassing basic, translational, clinical, and population science. Overall goals for this competing renewal application are to strengthen the capabilities of minority-serving institutions Meharry Medical College (MMC) and Tennessee State University (TSU) to engage in cancer research, as well as expand research in cancer health disparities at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC). In order to accomplish our objectives, this Cancer Partnership aims to: 1) Increase the number of traditional, extramural awards on which MMC…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center (MWCHC), Nashville’s oldest non-profit health center, has announced further details surrounding the 2022 Dr. Matthew Walker, Sr. Legacy Breakfast. The event will take place virtually on April 28 at 9:00am. Admission is free, and donations are encouraged, with all proceeds benefiting MWCHC. Attendees can register here. Dr. Matthew Walker was a pillar throughout Nashville both as a medical professional and community staple. He chaired Meharry Medical College’s department of surgery from 1945 to 1973 and developed a rigorous residency program in order to cultivate exceptionally trained surgeons. He was a professor of…
National–Former NFL star Herschel Walker has made millions in business ventures since he retired in 1997, and he claims to be worth more than $29 million today. But despite that success, the Republican Senate hopeful and longtime friend of Donald Trump has, for whatever reason, chosen to dramatically inflate his business record, according to a Daily Beast investigation. In doing so, Walker has established a parallel record of demonstrably false claims, many of which appear to bear no resemblance to reality whatsoever While Walker’s business record has been picked over before—including in an Associated Press review of “exaggerated claims of financial success”—The…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–The W. E. B. Du Bois Honors Program will host U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis, as the keynote speaker for the Honors Convocation on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in the Fisk Memorial Chapel. In addition to the Special Performances, there will be a Fisk Research SymposiumHonors and Awards Ceremony, as well as a reception to follow in the Appleton Room.The Honors Convocation will stream live on the Fisk University YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/fiskuniversity/). About Congressman Danny K. Davis”Congressman Davis was chosen by the people of the 7th Congressional District of Illinois as their Representative in Congress on November…
Dear Editor: Please say NO to the DRUGS Act. Access to safe and affordable prescription drugs is critically important to me, thousands of people in TN and millions of Americans. That is why I am asking you to oppose the DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R.6352 & S.3399). The DRUGS Act would rob Americans like me of one of the only avenues for safe and affordable prescription medications: licensed international pharmacies. I was paying over $100 per month for my thyroid medicine and now from Canadian Pharmacy I pay $52.00 for 3 month prescription. We are…
By Ashley Smith The challenges of motherhood have only grown since the outbreak of COVID-19.Monique Garvin, a Black mom who lives in Columbia, South Carolina, said navigating pregnancy during the pandemic was a feat. She constantly felt lonely and worried. “It was really hard for me being isolated from family,” Garvin said. “I feel like I went through my pregnancy with limited family, and it just wasn’t the same experience I would have had if COVID had not been here. It also really increased my anxiety around going out and being in the community.” Like Garvin, many new mothers have…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — MTSU assistant professor Yangseung Jeong has earned the prestigious Ellis R. Kerley Research Award. Jeong, who has been a member of the Department of Biology and Forensic Science program since 2017, learned earlier this year he is the 2022 Kerley award recipient, recognizing excellence in the continuing effort to research and develop methods in forensic anthropology. The announcement was made by the Ellis R. Kerley Forensic Sciences Foundation. Retired MTSU Forensic Institute for Research and Education Director Hugh Berryman received the honor in 2008. MTSU is one of three U.S. universities with multiple Kerley award winners since…
By Oscar H. Blayton COVID-19 is not the only epidemic plaguing America’s Black community today. The respected medical journal, The Lancet, has reported, “The epidemic of amputations among Black communities across the USA is a brutal reminder of the enduring complications of [diabetes] among underserved populations…” Other prestigious publications have characterized this epidemic as an indictment of our health care system. Diabetes is one of the most common causes of amputation because it leads to peripheral artery disease, or PAD. PAD in the legs is the narrowing or blockage of the vessels that carry blood from the heart. With the…
By Guy Anthony Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. recently introduced a bill that could delay patients’ access to lifesaving treatments — and even take FDA-approved medicines away from patients who are already using them. As a Black man living with HIV and a lifelong advocate for patients, I fear this legislation will have disastrous consequences for millions of Americans, especially the most vulnerable among us.The bill essentially neuters the FDA’s “accelerated approval” pathway, which regulators established at the height of the HIV/AIDs epidemic. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of Americans were dying from this disease each year. Patient…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Trevecca Nazarene University has received a $200,000 grant from the Tennessee Department of Human Services to establish the Center for Human Flourishing, a program that will equip service providers with training and resources to help individuals and families with low income improve their stations in life and become less dependent on government financial assistance. Specifically, the Center for Human Flourishing is a Trevecca initiative that will use ongoing training, online resources and year-long cohorts to prepare Tennesseans for the work of human flourishing and holistic poverty alleviation. In the context of the program, human flourishing is attained when individuals…