As details of the mass COVID-19 inoculation campaign are being finalized in Shelby County, one of the most vexing issues — the labor pool — appears to be falling in place. A call between Mayor Jim Strickland and Doug McGowen, the city’s chief operating officer, and the leaders of medical teaching institutions put into a… Read More
While patients are waiting days in emergency rooms across the city now, there are no immediate plans to open the alternate care center at the former Commercial Appeal building. “There are plenty of beds available. The problem is with the nursing shortage, there are hundreds of beds we can’t staff now,” said Richard Walker, the… Read More
Dr. Nicholas Hysmith, director of Infection Prevention at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, is a problem solver. “The practice of medicine is a unique opportunity to help those in need while solving complex biological problems,” Hysmith said. “Also, medical providers have the responsibility to address the interconnectedness of health and socioeconomic factors. These are the two… Read More
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) now offer a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s Phase 3 clinical research study known as ENSEMBLE. This large clinical trial involving up to 60,000 volunteers evaluates the safety and efficacy of the Janssen investigational COVID-19… Read More
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis is one of many sites around the world that’s testing a COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. But a problem has emerged in Memphis: of the roughly 150 people who have volunteered for the research so far, very few come from minority groups. That could hinder efforts to… Read More
There are promising new laboratory results in an award-winning effort to find naturally occurring compounds that are therapeutic against the COVID-19 virus. So far, 35 of 125 naturally occurring compounds identified computationally at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to have potential against COVID-19 that have shown computational efficacy are undergoing first-batch testing at… Read More
As the number of COVID-19 cases revs up across the country, so is the effort to fight the virus. Over the next two weeks, drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna could have their emergency application for a vaccine approved. Moderna announced Thursday they expect to have up to 100 million doses of their vaccine available in the… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced today that Amali Samarasinghe, PhD, was awarded the Charles and Amelia Gould Innovation award amounting to $75 thousand over two years through the American Lung Association’s Awards and Grants Program. The Lung Association has committed $11.55 million through 98 awards to fund… Read More
