Harshawardhan Pande is a senior at Houston High School in Germantown. Horseshow, as he’s known, has been awarded a $10,000 grant to research vaccines against SARS-COV2 virus. January 5: Local 24 News at 6 January 5: Local 24 News at 10
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital received the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by way of FedEx Thursday morning, and began vaccinating its frontline workers within a couple of hours. Le Bonheur is one of the first children’s hospitals in the country to receive the vaccine. The first at the hospital to get the vaccine was Le Bonheur… Read More
As several COVID-19 vaccines inch closer to federal approval and mass distribution in the coming weeks, in the Mid-South Friday, local participants did their part in another vaccine trial now underway. St. Jude and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center recently opened a site for Johnson & Johnson’s Phase 3 trail of its COVID-19… Read More
Features video commentary from UTHSC’s Scott Strome “Doing nothing is not always the safest thing,” Dr. Steve Threlkeld with Baptist Memorial Hospital said.That’s the message from one of the leading medical minds in Memphis as the United States – and Mid-South – is on the cusp of its first widespread COVID-19 vaccinations. “When you think… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant illness and death while treatment options remain limited. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have discovered a potential strategy to prevent life-threatening inflammation, lung damage and organ failure in patients with COVID-19. The research appeared online in the journal Cell. November 19: KSDK NewsChannel 5 November 19:… Read More
Doctors at University of Tennessee Health Science Center said their COVID-19 treatment study is already off to a better than expected and positive start.Researchers are seeing how well a COVID-19 treatment drug works with the area’s diverse population.
“We are seeing a considerable surge,” Dr. Richard Aycock with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare said. Those in the Methodist hospital system are again planning out worst case COVID-19 scenarios. “It’s an alternative staffing model so we can expand into more beds,” Dr. Aycock said. This, as Methodist’s total COVID-19 patients more than doubled since October… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing will honor nurses from three Memphis hospitals, the Shelby County Health Department, and the Tennessee Health Department during its fourth- annual celebration of the nursing profession – the 2020 NightinGala – to be held virtually October 22. Registration is free and open to all at btsvirtualevents.com/uthscnightingala.
