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.

St. Jude is using daily test data of hundreds of employees to unravel the mysteries of COVID-19 immunity, antibodies.

Engineered Medical Systems has already more than doubled the size of its facility from 40,000 to 92,000 square feet.

Coroners in Mississippi rule on cases of death outside a hospital. In Mississippi, it's an elected job. 

The incision-less procedure is done outpatient at Regional One’s east campus by Semmes Murphey neurosurgeon, Dr. Aaron Bond.

Hospital's researchers use hearing test data gathered from more than 1,500 of its childhood cancer survivors.

Three racing options will be available for runners over four months before and on the 2020 race day, Dec. 5. 

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.”