Doctors are now warning about a post-COVID-19 illness that could develop in children. MIS-C stands for multi-inflammatory syndrome in children. It can appear and look like Kawasaki Disease, a form of heart disease. The illness is developing in older children.
A recent COVID-19 case in Shelby County has been flagged as a possible variant strain from the United Kingdom, which threatens to undermine progress made in reducing transmission rates of the virus. The so-called B.1.1.7 or U.K. strain was first found in Tennessee in January with the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Lisa Piercey, predicting it… Read More
Teams at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the UT Health Science Center are working on a home screening for Covid-19. It is a whistle. You blow into it and it stores a sample of your breath. February 2: 10 News Nightbeat February 2:FOX 43 News at 10 February 3: FOX 43 News This… Read More
A highly suspicious sample of COVID-19 found in Shelby County is the UK variant strain B.1.1.7, according to University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials. The sample was sequenced in the regional biocontainment lab on campus and has been sent to Nashville for confirmation. “The hamburger is already made; they are just putting a little… Read More
For nearly a year Shelby County Health Department Director Dr. Alisa Haushalter has worked around the clock to handle the pandemic locally. Dr. Haushalter is also an associate professor of Advance Practice and Doctoral Studies for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing. A part of that work is communicating the facts… Read More
This week thousands of people across Shelby County got their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, but not before waiting several hours in line. Friday, some progress was made. After waiting three hours in line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Pipkin Building, Anette Hossier and her husband had built up an appetite.
The big metal letters on the normally vacant building at 2355 Appling City Cove read “Motor Vehicle Inspection. ”But the volunteers in orange T-shirts and lab coats Friday, Jan. 29, were focused on drivers and passengers in the lines of cars going through the six bays at what was once a city auto inspection station.
When Andrew Griffith, MD, PhD, looks at the inner ear, he sees what he describes as “an engineering marvel.” Just think about it, he says, the inner ear is intricately designed to process sound, which can travel faster than the speed of nerve cell signaling in our body. Yet, when he began his research career… Read More
