Dr. Bruce Randolph, Shelby County Health Department health officer, said coronavirus test results are coming back in three days or less in some cases. The goal is for that to be between 24 to 48 hours.

The research will help pharmaceutical companies create medication to stop cholesterol from attaching to walls of blood vessels in the brain.

The child was 11, according to the Shelby County Health Department website, and was being treated for another condition at hospitals in Memphis. 

President and CEO Wardell Seals Jr. says, "I want people to know how to save a life versus perform CPR.”

The Chris Hope Foundation is celebrating its five-year anniversary and a new house for families with a child in one of the Memphis children's hospitals should be ready in September.

Dr. Jeff Warren says Shelby County now has "too many people who are sick to be able to randomly test people who aren’t." 

A South Carolina real estate investment firm just bought the Southwind area's 817,000-square-foot warehouse that had been used for decades by Nike.

EDGE awarded a $20,000 NEED grant to Summit Management Corp., which runs the annual Southern Heritage Classic. To date, EDGE has awarded $584,200 to 103 businesses; 83 of those (81%) are minority and women-owned businesses. 

Owners have spent nearly $11 million building Grind City Brewery Co. near Uptown. They are frustrated that the taproom's opening has been delayed for months while they wait for MLGW to move a power pole from the middle of the access drive. 

Top Notch Security has been the subcontractor on airport security for 15 years. The new contract has different requirements, according to security changes coming to the airport.

The proposed "Pre-Development Assistance Grant" would provide up to $5,000 for such costs as marketing studies, architecture, engineering and environmental assessments. 

The president says the university is lucky it doesn't have many classes with a large-lecture format. 

Outreach includes immediate efforts to boost human papillomavirus vaccination rates here and across the Southeast. Tennessee ranks 37th in the nation. 

Rooziman and Nighat Shah have just bought 45 acres at Hacks Cross and Shelby Drive, with plans to build a convenience store/gas station as well as a 16,000-square-foot shopping center on the corner. They own more than 100 C-stores in and around the Memphis area.

The $5.9 million investment from NIH builds on $10.8 million the University of Memphis and its partner universities received in 2014 to make better use of medical data collected by sensor devices.

The current plan for the adaptive reuse of the Nylon Net Building is to build 199 apartments and a two-level parking structure with 230 spaces.

Pinnacle granted payment deferrals on $4.4 billion in loans and issued $2.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to customers affected by the pandemic.

Local entrepreneurs saw market opportunities in the medical industry for their products and services, and will be looking for additional seed capital to move forward. 

The e-commerce giant will now operate more than 4 million square feet of facilities in the Memphis area.

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.

Opponents' reasons can be grouped into about 10 categories, from traffic congestion to environmental concerns over underground gas tanks. Still, the Office of Planning Development has recommended the C-store be approved because the area around it has become more commercial. But now the case may be delayed until late August.

University Schools — Campus School and University Middle — have announced they will go all-virtual instead of the hybrid plan it previously released to parents.

UTHSC physician-scientist was part of the original leadership team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. He led the sequencing of RNA, which controls abnormal genetic expression in cancer cells. 

With bids over budget, options could include re-bidding, scaling down the project or finding more funding.

Church Health has added paid physicians to cover the load of the recently unemployed, plus spending thousands of dollars a month on PPE.