FedEx gears up for vaccine shipments with new tracking technology
FedEx’s latest package tracking innovation, SenseAware ID, will be available to some premium shippers in health care, aerospace and retail in November.
FedEx’s latest package tracking innovation, SenseAware ID, will be available to some premium shippers in health care, aerospace and retail in November.
New, 140-apartment housing building will be called The Domino’s Village. Opening of the on-campus facility is planned for spring of 2023.
Statistically, the stress of the pandemic has hammered the health care workforce, and the signs are everywhere.
Nearly one-fourth of all adults will develop bunions. The new procedure requires four tiny incisions on the side of foot, which reduces the swelling and pain experienced with the older procedure.
Study shows that when pneumococcus bacterium interacts with influenza A, the virus spreads easily through the air.
Local doctors say science has to prevail in race for safe, effective vaccine.
Owner of Revive Ketamine Clinic in Arlington says the approach helps patients deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and some chronic pain syndromes.
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.
The Chris Hope Foundation was founded in 2015 to help ease the financial and emotional burdens that families face when their child is fighting a life-threatening illness.
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.
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.
The U.S. government purchased 150 million rapid-result antigen tests; up to a million are set aside for Tennessee.
Medical device maker Stryker has extended its $5.4 billion offer to buy Wright Medical for a fourth time, to Sept. 30.
New CDC guidance says that people who come in close contact with a positive case may not need to be tested.
Schools have responsibility to contact people who may have come in contact with the virus on school property. It must happen within 12 hours.
Dr. Betty Harville was the first Black female optometrist in Tennessee and first Black woman in the U.S. to become a full-time optometry school professor.
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.
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.
Baptist needs 15,000 gowns a day; to get them, it chartered a plane through FedEx, straight from China.