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.

Online practice offers appointments six days a week from acute care to helping people manage chronic disease.

The new standards for reopening bars and allowing gatherings are based on trends in cases and positivity rates.

Health department adds 141 employees, funded with CARES Act money that expires Dec. 31.

The program will now offer 13 majors across several disciplines.

José Lara was hospitalized this summer with COVID-19 and was treated with remdesivir at Methodist Hospital-North. His heart breaks for friends and family using folk remedies, including lemon juice.