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Shelby County expects to enter phase three next week

The Memphis Business Journal

The Shelby County Health Department recommended Monday afternoon that local municipalities remain in the second phase of reopening this week but said citizens can expect to enter the third phase on June 15.


MIL-OSI USA: Congressman Cohen Announces Aging Research Grant to UTHSC

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Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $228,000 from the National Institute on Aging for research on amyloid precursor proteins. Also mentioned on: June 9: Targeted News Service  


The link between COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death

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“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.


UTHSC researchers awarded $1.7 million for opioid addiction studies

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A team of University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers in the College of Medicine recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to study how genetic differences may explain why some people are more susceptible to opioid addiction than others. Hao Chen, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science,… Read More


’White Coats for Black Lives’: UTHSC students, staff gather in honor of George Floyd

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A sea of white coats could be seen kneeling in front of the Coleman Building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Friday in honor of George Floyd. Students, faculty and staff knelt for nine minutes representing the eight minutes and 46 seconds a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on George Floyd’s neck… Read More


First patient treated with remdesivir discharged with tears, applause

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Victories celebrated early in a pandemic represent what science knows at the time. Thursday, Patricia Myles, 49, one of the first people treated in the region with the experimental drug, remdesivir, was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started. She floated through the lobby on the throng of good wishes… Read More


Protests and pandemic may be something Memphis COVID rates can weather

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When Dr. Jon McCullers looks at the hundreds of Memphians who have been marching daily for more than a week now, he sees a lot of a face masks and perhaps a preview of the challenge that opening schools in August could present. But the pediatrician-in-chief at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital says he is not… Read More


Weathersbee: Should black violence spawn more outrage than police killings? One feeds the other

The Commercial Appeal

So, let’s talk about outrage. Some of my readers, as well as numerous keyboard warriors, have been questioning whether the activists who’ve been protesting Derek Chauvin’s slaying of George Floyd on camera are as outraged over the violence plaguing African-American communities. They are.