On Friday, Capt. Anja Dabelic, a doctor and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, on behalf of the president of the United States, gave military promotions to four of our medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Isolation is the cornerstone of addiction. Not surprisingly, addiction is thriving under COVID-19 “Shelter at Home” policies. In Shelby County for the month of April we have seen a jump in opioid overdoses by more than one third and a doubling in opioid overdose deaths compared to approximately the same time period last year. Municipalities… Read More
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still much we don’t know about the disease. But doctors around the world are racing to examine worrying reports of COVID-19 affecting the brain. Individual reports have shown strokes, brain swelling, and general brain damage occurring in patients with the disease, raising a serious question: Are the… Read More
Precautions against spreading the coronavirus, including physical distancing and working from home, have transformed the work of academic research teams across the country. That’s especially the case for scholars who conduct behavioral research, like us: Danielle Arigo specializes in research promoting healthy behaviors like physical activity, Ilana Graetz studies medication adherence for women with breast… Read More
Be like Mike and wear a mask — sort of. Ahead of the upcoming three-day Memorial Day weekend for many, the local pandemic response team is doubling down on Phase 2 social distancing reminders — along with a few basketball analogies.
When Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced the local back-to-business plan on April 27, he identified “flat or decreasing hospitalizations” as one of the keys to move from one phase to the next.
Did you know there are tests you can take to see if you’re immune or vulnerable to the coronavirus? FOX13 spoke with doctors and scientists who are investigating our bodies’ ability to fight off COVID-19 and working on a test that could indicate if we are either possibly immune or still vulnerable. They are called… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in Shelby County, the Memphis Metropolitan Area, and Tennessee.
