FDA approves Opill, first birth control pill that won’t require prescription
The manufacturer expects it will be on grocery and convenience store shelves in early 2024. Price, a critical factor, has not been announced.
Jane Roberts
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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Public Safety Physician community shocked into silence over Mauck slaying
“To see a guy in the peak of his career be taken out like that is so tragic,” said Dr. Dan Fletcher, one of nine orthopedic hand surgeons in the city and a longtime colleague to Dr. Ben Mauck.
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Health CareThe post-Roe world creates fear, stress in local OB-GYN offices
At Regional One Health, referrals from other hospitals for cases where the mother’s life is in danger are up 10%-20% because doctors in outlying areas are afraid of the risk.
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BusinessRedRover plans national expansion, starting in Dallas, Atlanta
In five to seven years, the number of employees is expected to triple to 45, while occupancy in Memphis will double.
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Health CareShotRx founders honored for being everywhere in pandemic, beyond
Ted and Merica Lyons’ ShotRx mobile clinics bring vaccinations directly to people in Shelby and Tipton County neighborhoods, as part of an effort to improve childhood immunization in the area, and the company is about to announce a partnership to help the unhoused.
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EducationAffirmative action ruling causes stab of frustration but local leaders unsure of overall effect
“Colleges are not typically just using race anyway — instead, they are typically considering race as one factor among many,” said a local law school professor.
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BusinessCompany that ‘invented tenting’ adds event planning
Mahaffey Event and Tent Rentals began in 1924, making circus tents and more. Now the Memphis firm has bought Holliday Events’ furnishings and supplies, with plans for “full-service event planning.”
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MidtownMidtown boutique owners seek to stop developers’ assisted-living plan
“There’s more light here and love and healing here that other spaces don’t have,” said the owner of Lucyja Hygge, a shop full of incense and teas, as developers plan to demolish it.
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Health CareChoices has made Carbondale a destination city
A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending abortion access in the Mid-South, a Choices clinic in Illinois is performing 350 procedures per month. By October, leaders expect the number will be 600.
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Health CareStrong-willed leader holds firm on abortion’s eroding turf
When the U.S. Supreme Court undid Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, Choices Center for Reproductive Health president and CEO Jennifer Pepper found a way to open a clinic in Illinois, where abortions are legal.
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Spirit of Memphis Dr. Heimberg, captured by the Nazis, built renowned practice in Memphis
He helped perfect the early science of lipids, the fats in the blood that cause high blood pressure and strokes. The clinic he started at the VA Medical Center in 1985 is busier than ever.
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EducationLeMoyne-Owen still faces enrollment troubles after president departs
The budget for the year starting July 1 has not been approved. Now, the board of trustees must also plan how it will replace the school’s president.
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State GovernmentMomentum Nonprofit Partners wants to organize Tennessee alliance
Beginning July 1, Memphis leaders will lay groundwork for a statewide nonprofit association, which they see as the place that will offer research on issues germane to nonprofits and help them get legislative access in Nashville.
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NeighborhoodsStreet Reach gives grassroots new meaning
With several thousand volunteers scheduled to come all summer, Brinkley Heights Baptist runs walk-up Bible camps on empty lots for hundreds of kids every day.
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MetroChrist Church votes to join Global Methodist Church
Global Methodist Church is a group of former United Methodist Church congregations created on May 1, 2022, to give splintering churches a denomination with Methodist connectionalism.
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Visual Arts Elmwood showing ‘Jaws’ in Cemetery Cinema
Pack a picnic and bring lawn chairs for this classic thriller on the grounds.
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Public Safety NCRM hosting panel on history of policing in second event in a national series
In the modern era, American policing often uses tactics that critics say are not uniformly applied, and the museum’s discussion will center on how structural racism impacts law enforcement.
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MusicHard Rock closing July 30; back in ‘97, it was boon for Beale
As late as the spring of 2022, a letter was filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development, indicating a plan to build a Hard Rock Hotel at 326 Beale St.
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MidtownBurke’s Book Store’s original aluminum sign to make triumphant return
A neighbor saved the Burke’s Book Store aluminum sign from demolition heap. It spent the last 16 years on her back fence, and now it’s coming back.
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Public SafetyAfter more stolen pipes found, Calvary organ restoration back on track
“I do keep telling myself that, 100 years from now, this will be another great Calvary story in the lore.”
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MetroMAS director boosts shelter save rate; rescue groups say strays out of control
Being the director of Memphis Animal Shelter isn’t easy in a poor city where animals are often inexpensive security systems, companions in unfenced yards or are owned by people who can’t afford spay/neutering or rabies shots.
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MetroIn her late 80s, Memphis woman writes her own war story
As a child, Jennifer Dobbs and her little brother were separated from their parents in China when the Japanese invaded. Her memoir was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books in 2022.
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East MemphisChrist Church and 161 other United Methodist churches OK’d to leave
More than 80% of the 840 UMC churches — and 87% of the members — in the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Annual Conference have chosen to remain with the United Methodist Church.
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Education Sharon McNary, ‘triple crown’ of principals, retiring after 40 years in district
McNary’s leadership produced two big faculty awards, high test scores and a neighborhood that knows her by her smile and Mustang convertible.
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Spirit of Memphis‘Grounded’ program inspires teen mindfulness, peace work
A Memphis documentary, “Me and the Light,” inspired the school curriculum Grounded that has touched hundreds.
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