An emergency room doctor and activist in Memphis, Tenn. detailed how shootings have impacted children after new data from one hospital in the city shows that 76 kids have been already been treated for gunshot wounds in 2021.
Pediatric melanoma is a rare disease with only around 400 cases diagnosed in the United States every year. To better understand this disease and how best to treat it, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists created a registry called Molecular Analysis of Childhood MELanocytic Tumors (MACMEL). A paper on findings from the registry was published… Read More
COVID-19 vaccines are still widely available across Memphis.Cordelia’s Market in Harbor Town is offering COVID-19 vaccines Saturday, July 10.
Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) was safe in two hospitalized patients who were co-infected with cases of COVID-19 that quickly resolved, raising questions about the procedure’s effect on the virus. FMT was effective for the two patients, who were receiving the treatment for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, reported Jaroslaw… Read More
The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host a “floss-cutting” opening event July 13, at its newest dental clinic on the Memphis campus. The Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) Clinic on the 3rd floor of the Dunn Dental Building at 875 Union Avenue, Suite C302, will be staffed… Read More
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
