“A lot of groups, including children’s hospital groups, are urging the FDA to rapidly review and turn this one over,” said Dr. Jon McCullers, chief pediatrician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. McCullers also is on faculty at UTHSC.
A Memphis specialist is getting national attention for an all-encompassing new textbook that is expected to greatly help doctors treat preexisting condition that can lead to that deadly disease and many others.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, sniffling and coughing some in his attic isolation, is on Day 6 of his COVID-forced retreat. “I explained to people that it feels like I have a sinus infection. Saturday was actually my worst day. And it’s gotten better every day since then,” he said Thursday, Sept. 16. His message from… Read More
Most horseback riders wear helmets when they ride. But many who don’t say it’s because helmets don’t fit well or are unnecessary. As for the riders who do, the helmets they use might not be offering their full protective value, a new study has shown. “Most people don’t know that equestrians are more likely than… Read More
Senior vice president and chief nurse executive, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Sometimes you’ve just got to take the reins. Nikki Polis effectively led Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare through the harrowing and confusing morass of the pandemic. She spearheaded PPE planning and worked on the revised visitor policy. And, when elective surgeries were suspended, she guided… Read More
The Memphis Bioworks Foundation facilitated the reinvigoration of the former site of Baptist Memorial Hospital in the Medical District, bringing it millions of dollars in investment. Bioworks played a key role in the rise of GTx, Memphis’ would-be blockbuster pharmaceutical company that ultimately stumbled and moved to San Diego. It backed and nurtured an array of promising local… Read More
(Mentions UTHSC) A Memphis-based biotech company announced in early August a partnership with a federal agency to work on a temperature stable, oral vaccine against two strains of the influenza virus.
Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is one of two principal investigators for a $1.8 million grant that extends the work of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a groundbreaking multisite project to understand cancer at its molecular level through genome sequencing and… Read More
