The CDC urges you to avoid any non-essential travel, but millions of Americans have been hopping on planes for spring break. Fortunately, more people are getting vaccinated, but doctors say young people, who are likely doing most of the traveling, haven’t had a chance to get that shot yet.
Shelby County Health Officer Bruce Randolph claimed Thursday a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation into the county’s handling of vaccines “exonerates us.” March 18: Fox13 March 18: Fox13 News—5PM March 19: WKNO-FM March 19: Fox17 This Morning
“If indeed this is a major gene protecting humans from hypertension, it should have come up as a candidate in genomewide association studies,” which scan thousands of people for gene variants linked to a disease. “Talking about therapeutic approaches at this point would be premature,” agrees University of Tennessee Health Science Center nephrologist L. Darryl… Read More
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will be receiving two major grants totaling $1,090,171 from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. Both grants are for antifungal research, including one looking at the species Aspergillus fumigatus.
More than 87,000 people in Shelby County have recovered from COVID-19.But doctors are learning more people are dealing with long-term symptoms from the virus months after their recovery.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases recently awarded Jonathan Wall, PhD, professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville, a $1.79 million grant for his study titled “Developing a Theranostic Immunotherapy for Systemic Amyloidosis.” March 16: Bioengineer March 16: News-Medical
The Tennessee Department of Health examined the cold chain for COVID-19 doses given between Dec. 28 and Feb. 24 here and found no disruption that would harm the doses, according Dr. Lisa Piercey, health commissioner.
A new study shows when there is an increase in pollen there can be a spike in COVID-19 infections. However, UTHSC Dean Scott Strome is doubtful about a correlation between an increase in pollen and COVID-19.
