FedEx is in daily contact with stakeholders in the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, from manufacturers and distributors to government agencies to some sites where vaccines will be administered.

Wright Medical has about 700 employees in the Memphis area.

By the third week in November, Pfizer expects it will have the final data required to apply to the FDA for emergency-use authorization.

The previously in-person conference has been replaced by a two-hour webinar, another casualty of the coronavirus.

Some evidence suggests workers are infecting others when they let their guard down outside patient rooms.

The event is part of a statewide emphasis on the flu vaccine; free COVID-19 tests will also be available.

Medical device maker Stryker Corp. last week reported strong third quarter earnings and momentum in the extremities and trauma business heading into 2021 after the planned addition of Wright Medical.

Clinic that serves the Hispanic community in Shelby County has 15 years’ experience knowing how to send the right message. It’s giving the Health Department a boost to reach people who need to hear the COVID-19 messages. 

Memphis doctors who violated False Claims Act in filing higher charges agree to pay for overbilling Medicare.

Certification shows processes in place to standardize high-quality care. 

New Regional One clinic offers specialists for a variety of post-COVID symptoms, including those that last for weeks.

Because the merger would leave Memphis with only two hospital systems, antitrust issues have required Federal Trade Commission review.

People behind the COVID pressure-valve facilities in Shelby County are ready to go to work if the surge overwhelms hospital capacity.

Not only has MLM Memphis – formerly CirQuest Labs – added employees and space since being purchased last summer, its founder anticipates the lab may triple in size within five years.

Data shows transmission happening in suburbs where athletic events are frequent and masks are fewer. 

The drugs are already approved for other uses in humans.

Tension of the moment, COVID-19 itself and all the ways people are trying to cope create an uptick in headaches.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is accused of awarding more than $400 million to West Clinic and its physicians, a significant portion of in kickbacks, for business that netted the hospital $1.5 billion between 2012-2018.

ROSA, short for robotic surgical assistant, is Zimmer-Biomet’s answer to more precise knee surgery. The robot figures out the math for each patient and builds a plan for the surgery.

The surgery he made it through is the closest thing to an artificial heart implant ever done in Memphis.

Poplar Healthcare joined the battle against the coronavirus late, but now it’s leading the charge to help Memphis reopen and stay open.

Almost every day, 15%-20% of the people in Shelby County who test positive do not respond to calls from the health department for contact tracing.

Trump’s doctor, Navy Cdr. Sean Conley, was also upbeat at an afternoon briefing but said the President will not be fully out of the woods for another week.

At Regional One, midwives deliver 30-40 babies a month and have a 9% cesarean rate, compared to 30% nationally.

After six months of coronavirus, the resulting losses are profound, but the stories these people tell are about going on, a process they find central to living with the unknown.