The antiviral interferon might help early but exacerbate disease in later stages. “The interferon response is a little bit tricky,” says Rudragouda Channappanavar, a viral immunologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who was not involved with the new studies. The response protects the body from infections by thwarting viral replication. “The body… Read More
All day, couriers from the Veteran’s Hospital, Regional One, Methodist and the medical examiner’s office bring small coolers of specimens to what last winter was a glorified broom closet on the fifth floor at 930 Madison Ave.
Liza Makowski, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medicine-Hematology-Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Joseph F. Pierre, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics-Obesity at UTHSC, have received $2.1 million from the National Cancer Institute for a five-year study to examine how the microbiome impacts the immune system… Read More
Dr. Wendy Likes talks about how the College of Nursing has helped students during the pandemic.
Actor Chadwick Boseman’s death from colon cancer shocked the world, and it has many people checking up on their own health. Boseman died at the young age of 43 from cancer that doctors normally recommend getting checked for at the age of 50.
Fans across the world are still mourning the death of ’Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman. The actor died after a four-year battle with colon cancer on Friday and many fans are taking his death personally.
As early as September, $5, rapid-result antigen tests, purchased by the U.S. government, could start arriving in Memphis, offering 15-minute turnaround times expected to appeal to employers and schools. The Trump administration purchased 150 million of Abbott Lab’s BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card tests for $760 million, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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