UTHSC researchers building software to scan thousands of genomes
With a supercomputer, science will be able compare one person’s DNA against thousands of others in a matter of minutes.
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With a supercomputer, science will be able compare one person’s DNA against thousands of others in a matter of minutes.
Construction for the adaptive reuse of the old Trolley Stop restaurant building at 694-704 Madison may start in September and be completed next April.
Some say changes could affect the level of care at the hospital.
Opinion: ‘By stripping the Tennessee Department of Health of its vaccine outreach to youths, state lawmakers have also robbed the people of Tennessee of their own autonomy in health care decision-making.’
When distancing is not possible, schools are asked to layer other protections to cover the students 12 and under are not vaccinated.
Six recipients from across the UT System honored with award and $3,000.
The 250-member group at Le Bonheur makes up the core of the hospital medical specialties.
Details of a lengthy investigation of Axel Grothey for allegations of professional misconduct, including sexual relationships with two female colleagues, were recently made public. He lied about a Mayo Clinic reprimand when he applied for a license to practice medicine in Tennessee.
Dr. Maury Bronstein, a retired physician and former chief of staff at Baptist Medical Center, died Monday at age 95.
Two-hour event looks at issue from multiple perspectives.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center has trained health coaches to work in clinics in three cities that serve medically underserved people; and it’s taking notes on what happens.
Eight of the 19 members sign letter asking for workers to be reinstated.
Consortium has $2.4 million to award for studies that draw links, create solutions.
Cases of COVID-19 fell steadily in January and February. The plateau now is very likely due to the U.K. variant pulling the numbers up again, Dr. Manoj Jain says.
University posts 17 new jobs but for less pay, according to one of the laid-off workers.
The course to become a certified nurse-midwife is three years for full-time students; part-time students can finish in four years.
Due to the water-boil advisory, reduced water pressure, heating issues and various burst pipes, the University of Tennessee Health Science campus closed on Monday, Feb. 22, but the COVID testing site is open.
UTHSC confirms it has identified two variant strains of the virus in Shelby County.
Using surrogate viruses developed by UTHSC professor, labs working on COVID vaccines and boosters can check their efficacy without using the dangerous SARS-CoV-2 virus.
It has been almost 11 months since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Shelby County, and we are tired. Even those who want to follow all the protocols and continue the good fight are more likely to ‘slip’ now and then. It’s called human nature and surveys show that across the country, Americans are weary of the pandemic.
With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.
Charisse Madlock-Brown leads a group looking at social determinants of health in a massive, NIH-funded database representing 2.5 million people tested for COVID in about 75 clinical centers around the nation.
Variant doesn’t appear to be more virulent but could ramp reproduction rate here from 1.07 to 1.57 and dramatically increase deaths.
For perspective, the death toll for first nine months of the pandemic is 821 as of Tuesday, Dec. 22.
Shelby County has about one primary care physician for every 1,200 people, according to Clint Cummins, executive director of the Memphis Medical Society.