Dr. Richard Walker, a seasoned veteran of emergency medicine and student of history, instinctively sensed what horrors lay ahead one day in late February when a senior member of his team casually said: “You’re about to find out why your grandparents washed and saved tin foil.” As head of emergency services, Walker has seen every… Read More
The lab operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, processing about 800 tests a day.The lab’s turnaround time has been key to fighting the virus with many results returned in less than 12 hours. “I think we’ve played an absolute essential role in the city, particularly filling gaps within the community of people… Read More
Meet Health Care Hero Dr. Scott Strome of UTHSC. Strome has proved to be a leader during COVID as he led the efforts to set up the Tiger Lane testing site. He also directed UTHSC to produce a training video that established the protocols for testing.
Provectus (OTCQB: PVCT) today announced that the Company has initiated a new sponsored research program with Michio Kurosu, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, Tennessee to investigate rose bengal disodium (RBD) targeting of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria. RBD is… Read More
The antiviral interferon might help early but exacerbate disease in later stages. “The interferon response is a little bit tricky,” says Rudragouda Channappanavar, a viral immunologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who was not involved with the new studies. The response protects the body from infections by thwarting viral replication. “The body… Read More
All day, couriers from the Veteran’s Hospital, Regional One, Methodist and the medical examiner’s office bring small coolers of specimens to what last winter was a glorified broom closet on the fifth floor at 930 Madison Ave.
Liza Makowski, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medicine-Hematology-Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Joseph F. Pierre, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics-Obesity at UTHSC, have received $2.1 million from the National Cancer Institute for a five-year study to examine how the microbiome impacts the immune system… Read More
Dr. Wendy Likes talks about how the College of Nursing has helped students during the pandemic.
