The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was introduced in the United States for preteens more than a dozen years ago, yet adherence rates are still below those for other childhood vaccines. Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Emory University have received a major grant totaling $2.7 million from the National Cancer Institute/National… Read More
Taking the time to author manuscript submissions, participate in peer review assignments, fill out grant applications and attend funding panel meetings are all both markers of academic productivity and metrics for promotion and tenure within higher ed. COVID has made such activities challenging for many faculty–especially faculty who are parents of young children. In one… Read More
The two-decades-old relationship between Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center could see dramatic changes in the coming year, as the number of UT residents hosted by Methodist may sharply decrease and an existing partnership between the groups’ physicians could be dissolved.
COVID-19 cases continue to climb in Shelby County, and health professionals say these high numbers don’t include the spike that is likely coming after the Thanksgiving holiday. “If you look at the trajectory of the curve, it’s going up at a very steep rate,” said Dr. Scott Strome is the executive dean at the UT… Read More
Many thanks to Dr. Scott Strome, Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN. During this 15-minute Medscape interview, Dr. Strome shared the challenges and satisfactions of working as Dean during COVID-19.
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to disproportionately affect the health and well-being of certain racial and ethnic populations. African-Americans and Hispanics are two to three times more likely to contract COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from it as are whites.
Dr. Manoj Jain will see COVID-19 patients in the hospital before his miniaturized Thanksgiving with only immediate family. “We usually have four families that have been getting together for Thanksgiving for two decades,” said Jain, who is advising Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration on the pandemic. “Not this year.”
I pulled up to the Lamar Avenue COVID-19 testing station shortly after 3 p.m. on Sunday. “No line, no waiting!” one of the staffers said at the first checkpoint. A short time later, a medical worker in protective gear was swabbing my nose.
