Aisling Maki

Dr. Mehdi Sadeghi was just a boy in 1979, when the Pahlavi Dynasty was overthrown in his native Iran, and in 1980, neighboring Iraq invaded, sparking a seven-year war that would leave an estimated half a million soldiers and an equal number of…

In an effort to better serve patients and foster financial stability, Crittenden Regional Hospital in West Memphis has entered into a new affiliation and consulting agreement with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. Crittenden Regional Hospital, which…

A story from The Memphis News On newsstands throughout the city Citizens’ well-being is top priority at University of Memphis’ School of Public Health It’s well-known that the Memphis area’s population suffers from a host of chronic health issues,…

SPECIAL EMPHASIS: Health Care After his father was diagnosed with diabetes, Brett Wright – wanting to better understand treatment for the disease and a way to help patients like his father – decided to enroll at the University of Tennessee Health…

The health care partners who’ve committed to having a physical presence in the soon-to-be-redeveloped Sears Crosstown Tower say they’re excited about the opportunities to join forces in promoting health and wellness in the Memphis community. Of the…

David L. McKee, longtime chief operating officer at ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, died in a car accident in the Memphis area Friday, Aug. 17. He was 66. In a long and storied ALSAC career that spanned 35 years,…

A new nationwide survey of U.S. physicians shows that 34 percent say they will leave the practice of medicine in the next decade, just as millions of Americans newly insured under the Affordable Care Act will seek more access to medical care. In…

Fifteen of the nation’s top junior philanthropists visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Thursday, July 19, to learn first-hand what makes the hospital one of the nation’s most well-known and trusted charities. St. Jude this year…

The Regional Medical Center at Memphis is preparing for a busy Independence Day. The staff at the Firefighters Regional Burn Center, a full-service burn center housed inside The MED, knows all too well how a quick celebration can turn to tragedy when…

In 2010, Dr. Lee Roberts and his son Josh Roberts co-founded Memphaceuticals LLC, a small, virtual company committed to rapidly moving to market therapeutic candidates for dermatological problems. “Our overall mission is to really focus on…

Inside Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital at 50 N. Dunlap St. is a corridor known as the Wishing Wall, where patients and their friends and family are invited to write down their wishes and prayer requests and leave them on the wall for the hospital’s…

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute this year celebrates a century of improving the quality of care for patients with neurological and spine disorders. The Memphis-based institute, which today employs about 275 people – including about 40…

An aging population, changes in the national health care model and a shortage of primary care physicians have increased the need for physician assistants, or PAs, who work under the direction of physicians and surgeons. One of the fastest-growing…

Healthy Memphis Common Table held its annual meeting Tuesday, May 22, at the University of Memphis to discuss health-related challenges facing citizens. The organization is a nonprofit, regional health collaborative working to improve the quality of…

This week marks a milestone for Memphis-based MRI Interventions Inc., which began trading as a public company Monday, May 21. The medical device business, whose mission is to create innovative platforms for performing the next generation of minimally…

To reflect its comprehensive line of services, the former Cardiac Care Center at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis has been renamed The Heart & Vascular Center. “We changed the name to encompass the full range of cardiac and vascular care that’s…

Next to a full-size MRI machine at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital sits its identical miniature version, perfectly sized for a doll and decorated with friendly cartoon fishes and other smiling sea life creatures. The pint-sized play copy’s purpose is…