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Strickland makes pitch to test 30,000 people a day

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Mayor Jim Strickland wants to begin testing as many as 30,000 people a day for the coronavirus, starting with a pilot program for municipal workers in early June, to protect the city when school starts and flu season rolls in a few months later.


UTHSC pharmacy students make masks for under-served communities

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The UTHSC College of Pharmacy chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) is making face coverings to help underserved communities in Tennessee during the COVID-19 pandemic.  


At UTHSC, W.C. Handy’s cornet symbolizes innovation, team science

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Charisse Madlock-Brown, an assistant professor at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has just received a National Institutes of Health grant — her first — to drill down in the records of 70 million patients, looking at those with two or more underlying conditions, how often they occur, in what combination and what it costs… Read More


East Hampton Samples Are a Crucial Contributor to Lyme Test

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The successful development of a rapid new diagnostic Lyme disease test is owed in part to the test samples contributed to The Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s Lyme Disease Biobank, specifically from the patients of Dr. George Dempsey’s East Hampton Family Medicine practice.


Psychiatrists say viral police brutality videos can take toll on African American mental health

My Fox Memphis

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are some of the latest victims of what some say amounts to police brutality and racial injustice and the videos and audio of these incidents have gone viral. FOX13 talked with a psychiatrist who said these videos can have a major impact mentally and emotionally on everyone but… Read More


UTHSC researcher awarded NIH grant to study age-related multimorbidity

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A UTHSC researcher has been awarded an R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her work to identify and understand trends in age-related multimorbidity. Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, assistant professor in the Health Informatics and Information Management Program is the principal investigator on the study titled “Data-Driven Identification of Costly Multi-Morbidity Groupings and Their… Read More


What will school look like this fall? Task forces are planning for several scenarios

The Commercial Appeal

The first day of school in August 2019 would flunk 2020’s course on social distancing: teachers and students high-fiving, packed close and bent down to elementary schooler eye level, sharing big smiles and welcoming students back to the classroom before an assembly in the cafeteria where students barely left 6 inches of space between one… Read More


UTHSC tracking new COVID-19 cases during reopening phases

My Fox Memphis

With more businesses back open, more people are venturing back out across Shelby County. FOX13 talked with doctors tracking the number of new COVID-19 cases that occur during the reopening phases. Wednesday, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center doctors said the number of new cases is where they predicted it would be. But they… Read More