Meharry Medical College News

Dr. Walter R. Owens is the 86th president of the National Dental Association. Owens, a Nashville dentist, is senior development officer for the Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry.

The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation By Andrew B. Lewis Hill and Wang, 356 pp., $28 Nashville's north side had it all going on in the late 1950s.

Dr. Gwinnett M. Ladson of Meharry Medical College believes in strength in numbers.

With more than a million Tennesseans lacking dental insurance, Meharry Medical College is hoping a new oral health clinic will help treat underserved populations with the latest technology.

As the end of 2009 nears, The Tennessean is again preparing to select its Tennessean of the Year, and we want your help in choosing the person or group that has made the most exceptional contribution to the people of this state.

What's more important: finding a cure for cancer or helping those who already have it? The American Cancer Society is trying to do both - and more.

In the age of the World Wide Web, people are a click away from finding old friends, meeting potential soul mates, and now, helping to discover cures or treatments for diseases.

Meharry Medical College helped celebrate the recent opening of a new state of the art dental clinic by treating Ardie freeman, a 105-year-old patient.

Abraham Baldwin College President David Bridges recently was selected to receive the Honorary American Future Farmers of America Degree from the National FFA Organization.

When it comes to prompting friends and relatives to get cancer screenings, forget subtlety.

For decades, the word cancer has inspired fear like none other, conjuring images of parents and grandparents who got their diagnoses and died, sometimes quickly, sometimes painfully.

Four decades ago, the city carved a swath of interstate across Jefferson Street, the symbolic center of African-American life in Nashville.

Xavier University of Louisiana has received a five-year $10.1 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources , part of the National Institutes of Health and its Research Centers in Minority Institutions program.

Cambridge Who's Who is an exclusive membership organization that recognizes and empowers executives, professionals and entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Imagine being able to thwart HIV with a cream or prevent a baby from premature birth in the early stages of pregnancy with a simple urine test.

Meharry Medical College is getting a $21.4 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health -- the largest NIH grant in the college's history.

Six alumni from Austin Peay State University will be honored Saturday, Oct. 31 during the Alumni Awards Brunch, held as part of the University's Homecoming 2009 festivities.

During October, participating Curves locations are offering discounts to women who receive mammograms or support breast cancer awareness efforts.

Meharry Medical College has announced it is the recipient of a $1 million historic preservation grant from the United States Department of the Interior that will be used to renovate Hulda Margaret Lyttle Hall.

Meharry Medical College will receive a $1 mllion historic preservation grant to renovate Hulda Margaret Lyttle Hall through stimulus funds.