UTHSC In the Media


Opinion: Challenges with COVID-19 could bring transformational change, improve human health

The Commercial Appeal

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on human health worldwide. While scientific communities and clinicians are engaged in research to develop a vaccine for the virus and are repurposing existing antiviral drugs to treat it, prospects for either are not available now.  


Health expert says city needs to practice social distancing, good hygiene to prevent second COVID-19 wave

WREG

An local health expert says Memphis is not experiencing a second wave of COVID-19, but the city will need to maintain social distancing and good hygiene practices to prevent one. As some states see declining COVID-19 cases and slowly reopen, Memphis has recently seen a small increase.


UTHSC receives $1.7 million to identify genes in oxycodone addiction

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Scientists for years have known that the genes people are born with may count for more than half their vulnerability to drug addiction.But what they don’t know is how or why genetic differences contribute to the risk or make people more vulnerable to stress, often the precursor to addiction.  


Threat Detection And Threat Hunting Is A Process; One CISOs Journey

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Dennis Leber joins us to provide real-world advice on subjects ranging from artificial intelligence, threat detection, hunting and response. Join us in discussion with a world-class InfoSec expert sharing best practices to help build a more robust cyber security network without leaving your desk.


McCullers discusses shifting focus from general public to older Memphians 

The Memphis Business Journal

This shift could affect local businesses if future safer-at-home orders are more focused on at-risk populations and older Memphians, as opposed to broadly restricting commerce.


Shelby County expects to enter phase three next week

The Memphis Business Journal

The Shelby County Health Department recommended Monday afternoon that local municipalities remain in the second phase of reopening this week but said citizens can expect to enter the third phase on June 15.


MIL-OSI USA: Congressman Cohen Announces Aging Research Grant to UTHSC

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Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $228,000 from the National Institute on Aging for research on amyloid precursor proteins. Also mentioned on: June 9: Targeted News Service  


The link between COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death

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“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.