When the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, no one could have foreseen the worldwide pandemic that would place a spotlight on the contributions and challenges of nursing. As a leading nursing school, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing made a dedicated effort… Read More
As FedEx continues to deliver COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech throughout the U.S., another vaccine candidate is poised for distribution in just days. Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and highly effective, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it is on pace for emergency use authorization from the… Read More
West Clinic has agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit alleging physicians for the Memphis institution took part in a yearslong kickback arrangement, according to a court filing Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed by two high-ranking Memphis healthcare executives: Methodist University Hospital President Jeff Liebman and David Stern, former executive dean and vice chancellor at… Read More
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis is one of many sites around the world that’s testing a COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. But a problem has emerged in Memphis: of the roughly 150 people who have volunteered for the research so far, very few come from minority groups. That could hinder efforts to… Read More
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to disproportionately affect the health and well-being of certain racial and ethnic populations. African-Americans and Hispanics are two to three times more likely to contract COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from it as are whites.
I pulled up to the Lamar Avenue COVID-19 testing station shortly after 3 p.m. on Sunday. “No line, no waiting!” one of the staffers said at the first checkpoint. A short time later, a medical worker in protective gear was swabbing my nose.
A big series of free COVID-19 testing events takes place in Memphis Saturday and Sunday. A big weekend of free COVID-19 testing events continues in Memphis this Sunday, Nov. 22.
Shelby County officials expect to begin receiving shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine within a few weeks, said Bruce Randolph, health officer for the Shelby County Health Department.
