Another March 8 is here in Shelby County but March 8, 2021, looks much different than its counterpart a year earlier, the day COVID-19 made its way to the Mid-South. One year ago today, it was announced; a woman who went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and contracted the virus and brought it back… Read More
Risk increases with age. That’s a COVID-19 fact. Eight out of 10 deaths from this coronavirus in the United States have been among people 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But beyond that very calculable risk are some other truths —some that work in seniors’ favor, and some that do… Read More
Inside Memphis Business: Healthcare CEOs on the Pandemic Inside Memphis Business and Memphis magazines presented the 2021 CEOs of the Year in a webinar sponsored by eBiz Solutions on March 4th. The leaders of healthcare organizations in Memphis spoke of reacting quickly to the evolving situation that hit hard a year ago when the COVID-19… Read More
Shelley White-Means, Ph.D., a professor of health economics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is the principal investigator of a $298,368 grant to examine whether health outcomes for low-income individuals will improve if primary care delivery focuses not only on physical and mental health, but also on the effects of poverty.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded two UTHSC researchers over $1.9 million to study the pathogenesis of white matter damage, a main contributing factor to dementia. Francesca-Fang Liao, PhD, and Fu-Ming Zhou, PhD, both professors in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology, are co-investigators on the project titled “Blood-brain-barrier… Read More
The Midsouth is once again the center of vaccine distribution as yet another COVID-19 vaccine comes on the market. This one by Johnson and Johnson is a single-dose shot. FedEx has started shipment of the new vaccine and Tennessee could see 40,000 doses of it to start. Monday, the City of Memphis kicked off its… Read More
“Very confident, very confident that things will be smoother,” Mary Taylor said. Monday, Taylor spent part of her 86th birthday getting her second and final COVID-19 vaccine dose at the Pipkin Building under new management – the City of Memphis. “The bad news that has been associated with the county, and with the problems and… Read More
As practitioners, we are well aware of the need for new and better treatments for our patients, but we must not overlook others in the population who would benefit from existing treatments and yet, for various reasons, are neglected. New treatment development must be based on the understanding of underlying pathophysiology, which directly depends on… Read More
