The death of George Floyd in Minnesota has sparked a national conversation about racial justice in the US. Some of that dialog has centered around the need for better mental health awareness and services in the Black community. Racial trauma refers to the mental toll many Black Americans face from regular encounters with racism.
A critic of animal-based experiments has taken the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to task for how baby pigs were treated in a 2019 research project. Stop Animal Exploitation Now this week called for a U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation, based on findings reported by the medical university’s in-house Institutional Animal Care &… Read More
Fans could be allowed at Memphis 901 FC home matches this season, club president Craig Unger said Tuesday. While a final decision has not been made, he said the team had submitted a proposal to the Shelby County Health Department that was “well received.”
It’s becoming more clear about what returning to campus this fall will look like for students at the University of Memphis. The school says there will be testing for COVID-19.
Until recently, Shelby County’s robust testing apparatus was something for local officials to point to with pride. Now, the county is “at or above” its testing capacity, labs are “overloaded,” and many test results are being returned after they have become “useless,” University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) pediatrics chair and influenza pandemics expert… Read More
I had worked in the third floor newsroom of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. for years until last spring, when the other remaining staffers and I moved out. Almost exactly one year later, I returned to the newsroom, this time in a tour group led by a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
Shelby County health experts are especially mindful these days about available hospital and ICU beds. Hundreds are available at area hospitals, but for each extra bed rolled out, extra nurses and doctors are needed – and where that staff will come from remains a lingering concern as positive cases rise. July 13: Local 24… Read More
Updated guidelines from Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaves international students in Memphis and across the nation with a difficult choice — take classes in person while COVID-19 cases continue to rise or return to the last country they lived in before the U.S. and take online courses.
