As we inch more into the Summer of 2022, crime that involves Memphis teenagers is happening more and more. In his weekly update, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland wrote on several instances where teens, some as young as 13, are stealing cars and pointing guns at citizens. “What we see is a reflection of an unmet… Read More
Crime Stoppers of Memphis and Shelby County announced a $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a woman in midtown last month. Mallory Morgan, 27, was shot and killed just after midnight on May 12, 2022, in the parking lot of the Tuscany Midtown Place Apartments at… Read More
Recently, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) tapped Wesley G. Byerly, PharmD, to be its new senior associate vice chancellor for Research and Administration. And while one can only assume that UTHSC leaders were impressed by his thick, bushy mustache, it’s his significant experience at high caliber institutions that likely helped him score the… Read More
Bradley A. Boucher, PharmD, FCCP, FNAP, MCCM, has been named the interim dean of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Pharmacy. On June 1, Dr. Boucher, currently the associate dean for Strategic Initiatives and Operations in the college, will succeed Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, FAST.
While the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly devastating and vast in impact, it also yielded “academic medicine’s finest hour,” says Dr. Peter Buckley, the new Chancellor of UT Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Buckley says that the science community was able to shift their means of operations, work more closely together, and in some areas, find… Read More
As formula becomes nearly impossible to find, parents are becoming even more frantic — and the consequences are growing more dire. A lack of formula has sent at least four babies to a children’s hospital in South Carolina. An Atlanta hospital is also treating children due to the shortage. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said… Read More
Overdose numbers in Mid-South states are down from last year. In Tennessee, for example, the state’s Department of Health’s March 2022 report on overdoses, the most recent report they have, which is both fatal and non-fatal, showed roughly 600 less people OD’d than that time last year, 1,834 to 2,421. 2021 was a record-setting year for… Read More
Two Tennessee children with “specific dietary requirements” had to be hospitalized due to the crippling national shortage of baby formula. The children were hospitalized this month at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, according to Dr. Mark Corkins, division chief of pediatric gastroenterology at the hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
