ServiceMaster CEO steps down; board exploring sale of key business
Nik Varty is out as CEO of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, which is considering selling its ServiceMaster Brands business.
Jane Roberts
Reporter
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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Business U of M may increase on-campus classes Sept. 14
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.
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Health Care Rising transmission rate worrisome as Labor Day weekend approaches
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.
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Health Care Student-made COVID-19 treatments at Rhodes fill pipeline
Assistant professor Shana Stoddard is helping students design antiviral compounds for COVID-19, raising the bar for what remote learning can be.
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August 2020
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Business Research gains fuel U of M hopes for Carnegie R1 status
Federal grants on campus are up 50% and now account for more than 75% of the university's outside research funding.
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Health Care Quick, $5 antigen tests expected in Shelby County next month
The U.S. government purchased 150 million rapid-result antigen tests; up to a million are set aside for Tennessee.
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Metro Cases among student-athletes will be investigated like others, health officials say
Team members and coaches have the highest risk, said David Sweat, deputy director of the local health department.
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Health Care Doctors scratch heads over CDC guidance for less testing
New CDC guidance says that people who come in close contact with a positive case may not need to be tested.
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Financial Services U of M managing $40 million shortfall, sees more cuts ahead
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.
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Coronavirus Harris: COVID-19 info on children to be handled with ‘extreme care’
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.
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Health Care Schools must notify at-risk contacts within 12 hours, send weekly updates
Schools have responsibility to contact people who may have come in contact with the virus on school property. It must happen within 12 hours.
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Health CareFDA reverses decision, gives emergency approval for blood plasma infusions
About face comes after high-ranking experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, said early results did not prove the therapy works.
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Health Care Le Bonheur statistics show pandemic’s brute force on children
The Resilience Initiative at Le Bonheur reports depression and mental illness up 250% in family homes since pandemic began; violence in neighborhoods up 350%.
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Health Care FDA delay of blood plasma approval won’t slow local trials
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis has conducted nearly 850 of the plasma transfusions during the pandemic.
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Coronavirus Haushalter: ‘We are moving in the right direction’
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."
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Health Care UTHSC professor receives $4.5M for links in kidney, cardiovascular disease
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.
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Health Care Flu season looms, usual benchmarks offer little guidance
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.
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Education No provisions in place to alert general public to COVID-19 cases in schools
The Shelby County Health Department is not tracking the number of COVID-19 cases in the schools nor is it requiring schools to report cases.
Related: Like Shelby County, COVID-19 reporting among schools statewide is random
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Health Care Bacteria in the blood may be reason heart attacks so fatal to dialysis patients
Ten to 15 years ago, the notion that bacteria could be in the blood was heresy. Now, it may be the reason dialysis patients often die of heart attacks while they await kidney transplant.
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Coronavirus Coronavirus: New guidance says children don’t need to be screened
For people who have moderate to severe coronavirus symptoms, the isolation period may extend to 20 days, Alisa Haushalter said. She said it’s important for employers and schools to be prepared for this.
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High School Sports High school goes virtual after COVID outbreak
All of the school's athletics have been suspended, as well.
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Elections Momentum Nonprofit Partners pushes for Election Day holiday
A mailing sent to nearly 600 Memphis area nonprofit agencies encourages giving employees time off on Election Day so they can vote.
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Health Care Baptist will burn through 400K gowns in less than month
Baptist needs 15,000 gowns a day; to get them, it chartered a plane through FedEx, straight from China.
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Business CBU freshmen move in with usual fears, plus pandemic
At Christian Brothers University, modeling indicated campus would lose more than $4 million if all learning was conducted remotely.
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Le Bonheur infection expert says school OK, provided guidance followed
City is testing schoolchildren in charter schools here; results are being analyzed at Poplar Healthcare laboratories through pooled analysis. Poplar and AEL have both received FDA approval here for the analysis.
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