Lab equipment owned by the Shelby County Health Department will receive new life while loaned to LeMoyne-Owen College and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, as the department partners with institutions that share and promote its mission.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, vaccination rates for children have dropped precipitously compared to the same time last year. Many parents and caregivers have delayed visits to their pediatrician’s office because of understandable concerns about COVID-19 transmission.
Jonathan Wall, PhD, professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville and director of the Amyloidosis and Cancer Theranostics, has been awarded a two-year grant totaling $385,000 from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health to study new treatments for systemic amyloidosis. Also:… Read More
Medical experts said the number one lesson we can learn from President Trump contracting the coronavirus is that no one is exempt.
President Donald Trump walked out of Walter Reed Medical Center Monday heading back to the White House after testing positive for COVID-19 last Thursday. “It’s not like if you or I were to go home so my bet, although I don’t know this for a fact, is that they’re going to have you know all… Read More
Quiet, quick, lethal, the perpetrator was a mysterious killer when the woman in Memphis, facts in hand, began following its tracks. Like a murderer hiding in the night, the thing could be deadly, elusive, everywhere and no place, good at masking its trail. One day in China, then Italy, then America, then Brazil, it moved,… Read More
For months, the White House used tests to help limit the president’s possible exposure to the coronavirus. Last week the Trump administration announced it will send millions of rapid tests to states to help get students and teachers back to school.
The experimental drug given to President Trump to treat his COVID-19 infection is the very same drug being used in a clinical trial right here in Memphis. Dr. Scott Strome, Executive Dean of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, is very familiar with the antibody cocktail from biotech firm Regeneron. … Read More
