Scientists for years have known that the genes people are born with may count for more than half their vulnerability to drug addiction.But what they don’t know is how or why genetic differences contribute to the risk or make people more vulnerable to stress, often the precursor to addiction.
“I can’t breathe.” The last words of an innocent man strangled to death by a knee to the throat are also the last words of a hospital patient whose lungs are insidiously destroyed by an invisible virus.
Victories celebrated early in a pandemic represent what science knows at the time. Thursday, Patricia Myles, 49, one of the first people treated in the region with the experimental drug, remdesivir, was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started. She floated through the lobby on the throng of good wishes… Read More
When Dr. Jon McCullers looks at the hundreds of Memphians who have been marching daily for more than a week now, he sees a lot of a face masks and perhaps a preview of the challenge that opening schools in August could present. But the pediatrician-in-chief at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital says he is not… Read More
Like so many Americans, we watched in horror as George Floyd transitioned from “is” to “was” — choked by the hate in a white police officer’s shin. We watched in horror as Ahmaud Arbery transitioned from “is” to “was” — pierced by bullets of racism while jogging down his street. While we and scores of… Read More
Medical questions are piling up as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on. At Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, some of the most vexing are why the disease looks so different in children, including what can be a life-threatening illness weeks after the initial symptoms have passed.
Mayor Jim Strickland wants to begin testing as many as 30,000 people a day for the coronavirus, starting with a pilot program for municipal workers in early June, to protect the city when school starts and flu season rolls in a few months later.
The UTHSC College of Pharmacy chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) is making face coverings to help underserved communities in Tennessee during the COVID-19 pandemic.
