America’s love affair with the car is long and storied. From Henry Ford’s Model T to Elon Musk’s Tesla, Americans take great pride in what they drive, and some take great pains to keep their vehicles looking shiny and clean inside and out. But with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a greater concern… Read More
Students and researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are playing instrumental parts in the development of a vaccine and now, in vaccinating the campus community. Pharmacy and nursing students, and medical and oral surgery residents have all been trained and are now vaccinating other residents and students on hospital rotations as well… Read More
COVID-19 rapid tests are quick, easy and give you results in minutes, but they may not be as accurate if you don’t have symptoms. “You can’t just take a rapid test and say ‘Oh I don’t have COVID.” said Dean Scott Strome, UTHSC College of Medicine.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have played a supporting role in the development of COVID-19 vaccines. To examine the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during development, the company needed a way to test the inhibitory effects of the antibodies generated after vaccination on virus infection. However, to work with SARS-CoV-2 requires… Read More
An accelerated nursing program that started in 2019 is now producing nurses who have started their careers in the middle of a pandemic. WMC Action News 5 spoke with the director of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center program. Earning a BSN in a year, that’s what UTHSC’s current round of applicants will do… Read More
Based on virtual and in vitro antiviral screening that began in the earlier months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers led at UTHSC by Colleen Jonsson, PhD, identified zuclopenthixol, nebivolol, and amodiaquine as promising therapeutics for the virus in its early stages. Dr. Jonsson is a professor and the Endowed Van Vleet Chair of Excellence… Read More
One of the most common symptoms of the coronavirus is loss of taste and smell. Health experts estimate more than 80 percent of COVID patients lose at least some of those senses after contracting the virus.
The pandemic has muted what the public hears about the still-raging opioid crisis, its desperation and deaths hovering like a silent virus. In Shelby County, 416 people died of opioid overdoses in 2020, 73 more than in 2019, itself a record year.
