While the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly devastating and vast in impact, it also yielded “academic medicine’s finest hour,” says Dr. Peter Buckley, the new Chancellor of UT Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Buckley says that the science community was able to shift their means of operations, work more closely together, and in some areas, find… Read More
As formula becomes nearly impossible to find, parents are becoming even more frantic — and the consequences are growing more dire. A lack of formula has sent at least four babies to a children’s hospital in South Carolina. An Atlanta hospital is also treating children due to the shortage. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said… Read More
Overdose numbers in Mid-South states are down from last year. In Tennessee, for example, the state’s Department of Health’s March 2022 report on overdoses, the most recent report they have, which is both fatal and non-fatal, showed roughly 600 less people OD’d than that time last year, 1,834 to 2,421. 2021 was a record-setting year for… Read More
Two Tennessee children with “specific dietary requirements” had to be hospitalized due to the crippling national shortage of baby formula. The children were hospitalized this month at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, according to Dr. Mark Corkins, division chief of pediatric gastroenterology at the hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Two children in Tennessee were recently hospitalized because their families could not find the specific formula they need during a nationwide shortage that has grown more acute over the past month, sending parents frantically searching for interim solutions. Both children have short bowel syndrome, which prevents them from absorbing nutrients properly because part of their… Read More
Two children were hospitalized in Tennessee this month due to the nationwide baby formula shortage, according to a Memphis hospital. The children, both of whom had “specific dietary requirements,” were hospitalized in mid-May at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, said Mark Corkins, division chief of pediatric gastroenterology at Le Bonheur and the University of Tennessee Health… Read More
Christian Ketel and Carrie Plummer, both associate professors of nursing, were recognized by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for their stewardship and successful outcomes of the Vanderbilt Mobile Vaccine Program. These leaders have also received Vanderbilt’s 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, the Health and Wellness Award from the Hispanic Family Foundation and the 2022 John W. Runyan Community Nursing Award from the University… Read More
Those living in one Midtown neighborhood hope police find who is responsible for killing a 27-year-old woman who was found shot to death in her car. Family and friends are mourning the loss of Mallory Morgan after her life was taken too soon. When officers showed up at the Tuscany Midtown Place Apartments off Poplar… Read More
