What should Memphis youths do when home isn’t safe?
Seeing a bunch of young people roughhousing outdoors, or wandering in the streets, or hanging out on corners may seem like an act of rebellion or carelessness during this time of coronavirus.
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Operation Of Cath Lab During Covid 19 Pandemic
Dr Shyam Sathanandam at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Interventional Cardiologist has advised that catheterization laboratories should develop strategies for patient care by preserving and repurposing resources at this time of Covid 19 pandemic.
Shelby County should be able to test 5,000 people a day for COVID-19. So, why isn’t it?
Health care providers will be busy Friday setting up signs, traffic cones and a big tent, turning another Memphis-area parking lot into another bulwark against the coronavirus. A new COVID-19 drive-thru testing station is opening at Christ Community Health Services in Hickory Hill. The faith-based health care provider will open another at its clinic in… Read More
Telecommuting turns many of us into ‘professional voice users’
The coronavirus pandemic has created a culture of telecommunication meetings, and has forced us to use devices to connect with family and loved ones more frequently.
The poor, African Americans face worst of coronavirus
Beverly Robinson has serious issues with diabetes. In these strange times, she’s been in a two-bedroom apartment in Hickory Hill with eight family members, four of them young children, since the schools closed on March 13.
As COVID-19 patients increase, some Memphis hospitals look to old remedies for a new virus
As the number of COVID-19 patients in Memphis-area hospitals increases, some medical professionals are looking to long-used drugs and treatments successful with other viruses to treat patients with the novel coronavirus, for which there is currently no cure or vaccine.
Bridgeport native, WVWC alum Honce researching infectious diseases
West Virginia Wesleyan College alumna, Rebekah Honce, has always been always been fascinated by the natural world.
Congressman Cohen Announces Alcohol Research Grant to UTHSC
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $76,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to conduct alcohol research.