The number of people diagnosed with sickle cell each year is increasing. That is why the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is sounding the alarm. Local 24 News Reporter Brittani Moncrease stopped by the school to talk about a new program in the works to address the problem. On the grounds of the historic… Read More
By early next year, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital expects to be running its first outpost, a 21-bed children’s hospital within Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee. West Tennessee Healthcare, which operates clinics and hospitals in the region including Jackson General hospital, currently holds the license for the pediatric beds there. Under an agreement its… Read More
People who received the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines may be immune to COVID-19 for years, based on new research that shows the lymph nodes in vaccinated people begin producing protective cells that continuously regenerate themselves. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis studied the germinal centers in the lymph nodes of patients nearly four months… Read More
Students and staff who plan to be on the Christian Brothers University campus will need to provide proof of vaccination before the fall semester begins. CBU President Jack Shannon says this requirement is about following the science. Roughly 2,300 people, both students and staff, will be affected. Shannon said when they started seeing vaccines would… Read More
The University of Tennessee system is searching for the next chancellor of the UT Health Science Center, according to a news release. Chancellor Steve Schwab announced his retirement on June 1, the release says. Schwab plans to serve in his current role until June 30, 2022 or until a successor is on board, the release… Read More
The long-awaited partnership agreement between Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is expected to be approved by the UT board of trustees Friday. But one group of physicians, the UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists, is asking for the vote to be delayed.
Earlier this year, 70 University of Tennessee Health Science Center employees were let go from their job amid the pandemic. Friday, they protested their layoffs, as their severance pay ends in just five days. Frustrated former employees rallied at the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees annual meeting Friday, calling the layoffs “immoral.” They said… Read More
Two innovators at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center received the annual President’s Award Friday from UT president Randy Boyd. The awards were announced at the UT board of trustees quarterly meeting in Memphis. Colleen Jonsson, endowed Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Virology at UTHSC, is a national leader in research, immunology and… Read More
