“I can’t breathe.” The last words of an innocent man strangled to death by a knee to the throat are also the last words of a hospital patient whose lungs are insidiously destroyed by an invisible virus.
A team of University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers in the College of Medicine recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to study how genetic differences may explain why some people are more susceptible to opioid addiction than others. Hao Chen, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science,… Read More
A sea of white coats could be seen kneeling in front of the Coleman Building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Friday in honor of George Floyd. Students, faculty and staff knelt for nine minutes representing the eight minutes and 46 seconds a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on George Floyd’s neck… Read More
Victories celebrated early in a pandemic represent what science knows at the time. Thursday, Patricia Myles, 49, one of the first people treated in the region with the experimental drug, remdesivir, was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started. She floated through the lobby on the throng of good wishes… Read More
When Dr. Jon McCullers looks at the hundreds of Memphians who have been marching daily for more than a week now, he sees a lot of a face masks and perhaps a preview of the challenge that opening schools in August could present. But the pediatrician-in-chief at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital says he is not… Read More
So, let’s talk about outrage. Some of my readers, as well as numerous keyboard warriors, have been questioning whether the activists who’ve been protesting Derek Chauvin’s slaying of George Floyd on camera are as outraged over the violence plaguing African-American communities. They are.
Like so many Americans, we watched in horror as George Floyd transitioned from “is” to “was” — choked by the hate in a white police officer’s shin. We watched in horror as Ahmaud Arbery transitioned from “is” to “was” — pierced by bullets of racism while jogging down his street. While we and scores of… Read More
Jon McCullers — who has studied uncounted mortality from influenza for years — said the State of Tennessee is probably recording about 60% of deaths truly related to the coronavirus.
