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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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County health department officials visited 13 sites that have received complaints for failing to follow distancing or masking or other rules; five were closed after failing to heed warnings.
Two entrepreneurs from Smith & Nephew have built software that allows surgeons to remotely monitor patients. As the service, MiCare Path, gets on its feet, the creators will stick with what they know best: spines and knees.
In a repurposed lab at 930 Madison, UTHSC analyzes about a third of the city's COVID-19 tests, reporting responses in 24 hours.
Other clinics will be in Whitehaven, Germantown and Cordova; three will open in early November.
Memphis physicians say the process will have to move at warp speed to be ready by November, which may eliminate time to observe longer-term side effects and for a broader sample of the public to participate in clinical trials.
Shelby County Health Department Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph said the department will not make any changes to the Health Directive until about two weeks after Labor Day, due to the incubation period of coronavirus.
The venture started in 2017 with seed money from FedEx. Since then, it has employed 450 students and paid them more than $5.3 million.
No. 2 has long been Middle Tennessee State with more than 22,000 students.
Nik Varty is out as CEO of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, which is considering selling its ServiceMaster Brands business.
With coronavirus cases dropping, the University of Memphis may bring more students back to campus as early as Sept. 14, though the university says it may not be able to accommodate all faculty requests to return classes to campus.
Plus, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Tuesday announced $5,000 in funding for Senior Tech Connect, a new county program that will connect long-term care facilities with technology so residents can see their families.
Assistant professor Shana Stoddard is helping students design antiviral compounds for COVID-19, raising the bar for what remote learning can be.
Federal grants on campus are up 50% and now account for more than 75% of the university's outside research funding.
The U.S. government purchased 150 million rapid-result antigen tests; up to a million are set aside for Tennessee.
Team members and coaches have the highest risk, said David Sweat, deputy director of the local health department.
New CDC guidance says that people who come in close contact with a positive case may not need to be tested.
Shortfall on campus includes investments leaders have made in students while at the same time, being aware that it may have to lay off staff and administrators.
COVID-19 claimed the life of a child under 13 years old this week, health officials said, noting the virus was either the cause of death or a contributing factor.
Schools have responsibility to contact people who may have come in contact with the virus on school property. It must happen within 12 hours.
About face comes after high-ranking experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, said early results did not prove the therapy works.
The Resilience Initiative at Le Bonheur reports depression and mental illness up 250% in family homes since pandemic began; violence in neighborhoods up 350%.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis has conducted nearly 850 of the plasma transfusions during the pandemic.
Shelby County Health Department Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph: “We are looking at the data. It is looking good, but what we don't want to do is get so excited that we return back too soon."
The larger of the two NIH grants will fund the study of kidney injury in newborns. Much of the kidney failure people experience in midlife is caused by injuries when they were infants, research has shown.
Masking and social distancing greatly damped flu in the Southern Hemisphere over the summer. But it also means there was little to go on in what the Northern Hemisphere flu vaccine should include.