Think of it as Tamiflu for COVID.

“People don’t understand why they are being asked to name people. They don’t understand the whole role of contact tracing,” said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, director of Public Health Administration and Policy at the University of Minnesota. 

In its application to the Board of Adjustment, St. Jude says the new garage will improve blighted, unusable property and exposed sections of the Gayoso Bayou. 

Also stresses adherence to the mask mandate in K-12 schools and where compliance issues can be reported. 

It is looking for young people to be part of control groups in clinical trials looking at the affects of inflammation.

Germantown will review a PILOT for new medical offices Monday evening. Aldermen will also review a resolution formalizing their stance on consolidation.

The U.S. government Wednesday, Sept. 22, said it considering filing a motion to intervene in the whistleblower case against Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and former signatories, including former CEO Gary Shorb and former CFO Chris McLean.

FCS was informed the student had been out of school since Aug. 16 due to an unrelated issue before being diagnosed with coronavirus, according to FCS spokesperson Erica Williams.

At 7:02:56 Central Time Wednesday, a 29-year-old Memphian named Hayley Arceneaux rocketed Memphis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital into space. 

On Wednesday, September 15, Baptist hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the freestanding ER, the first of its kind in Shelby County. The hospital bought 80 acres at the site in 2003.

Hayley Arceneaux — a former St. Jude patient who now works as a physician assistant at the hospital — is poised to become the youngest person to ever orbit the Earth when Inspiration4 rockets into space Wednesday. Arceneaux says that representing St. Jude patients on the mission is “the biggest honor of my life.”

Portal for applying will open Sept. 29; no date yet on when funds will arrive.

ConveyMD podcasts helps health care professionals fulfill continuing education requirements on the run.

In the first of two parts, leading physicians speak to the history of COVID-19, its possible origins, the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and the the role of masking, among other topics. 

Sites across the nation were asked to recruit more 5- to 11-year-olds to get a broader look at vaccine side effects.

Women in the U.S. die at higher rates in childbirth than many other developed nations. For women of color, the rate of death is at least four times higher. To chisel away at the gap, in January CHOICES is starting a fellowship to coach two Black midwives a year.

In Shelby County, about one in five (23%) or 1,185 of the daily cases reported in the last month have been breakthrough cases. 

“Why are we now debating whether children should be protected amid a raging pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 in the U.S. alone?”

Nurses have until Sept. 10 to sign up for the two-year program. The first $10,000 installment will be paid Sept. 24.

Travel nurses filling the gaps make two to three times more an hour than staff RNs; it rankles, nurses say. But there are other reasons, including appreciation, exacerbating the nursing shortage.

The Monday, Aug. 23, county commission meeting also includes a resolution calling for a countywide mask mandate and another resolution calling on Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to rescind his executive order that outlaws mask mandates in schools.

“The patent is the backbone of our platform of solutions we are going to launch in the future,” says Esra Roan, co-founder of SOMAVAC Medical Solutions. 

The CEO of the region’s trauma center and safety net hospital said national competition among hospitals for the skilled specialists needed to put 21 beds back in use at Regional One is intense and costly. 

“I anticipate, honestly, that everyone that got the vaccine is going to want the booster. That is the feedback I have been getting,” says Melanie Keller, CEO of Meritan.

In 24 states, nurse practitioners are allowed to practice independently, without supervision by physicians. During the pandemic, 15 other states loosened restrictions to give them more autonomy.