How local health experts deal with COVID-19 in daily lives
Local infectious disease experts are helping us all manage and mitigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Publisher: Daily Memphian
UTHSC: Animal care complaint ‘promptly’ addressed
A critic of animal-based experiments has taken the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to task for how baby pigs were treated in a 2019 research project. Stop Animal Exploitation Now this week called for a U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation, based on findings reported by the medical university’s in-house Institutional Animal Care &… Read More
Facing the coronavirus with facts, not fear
The news seems consistently negative – more cases of COVID-19 in our community, more COVID-19-related hospital admissions, and overwhelming anxiety that our hospitals may not be able to accommodate the rapid influx of COVID-19 patients. These biologic concerns are amplified by the politicization of COVID-19, leading people to wonder what is fact and what is… Read More
UTHSC will provide COVID-19 testing for U of M campus
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is partnering with the University of Memphis to provide COVID-19 testing for U of M students returning in the fall. The partnership is an extension of successful research, education and outreach collaborations. Also mentioned on: Commercial Appeal: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/07/11/university-memphis-work-uthsc-covid-19-testing/5418298002/
Public health experts reiterate importance of wearing a mask
To stem the rise of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Shelby County, mask and facial covering use must increase locally, multiple public health officials reiterated at a press briefing Tuesday afternoon. “It’s my belief that the only way we’re going to see the numbers going back down, hospitalizations heading back down, is we have… Read More
Among doctors worried about rising numbers is CEO of field hospital
This week, the number of people in the city’s hospitals hit 71% of its COVID-surge capacity, a daunting high-water mark for a disease that spreads exponentially. At the current level of people moving about, doctors say the cases could jump from 500 to 1,000, overnight.
UTHSC receives $1.7 million to identify genes in oxycodone addiction
Scientists for years have known that the genes people are born with may count for more than half their vulnerability to drug addiction.But what they don’t know is how or why genetic differences contribute to the risk or make people more vulnerable to stress, often the precursor to addiction.
The link between COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death
“I can’t breathe.” The last words of an innocent man strangled to death by a knee to the throat are also the last words of a hospital patient whose lungs are insidiously destroyed by an invisible virus.