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    Chiropractors face delicate decision to stay open or close

    Some local chiropractors have stayed open, while others have closed due to coronavirus concerns. The balance of safety and pain relief make the decision extremely difficult. 

    By Drew Hill April 16, 2020
  • Health Care

    Shelby County gets a D+ in social-distancing matrix

    When researchers see a lull in new cases, they look to how well social distancing was going two weeks earlier.

    By Jane Roberts April 16, 2020
  • Shelby County

    Alisa Haushalter: In the forefront of a pandemic storm

    Through criticism, long days and a need for calm in the face of a pandemic, Alisa Haushalter maintains her principles while trying to provide answers for an invisible enemy

    By Don Wade April 12, 2020
  • Health Care

    With COVID-19 tests out, number of cases uncertain

    According to data released by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland late Friday afternoon, 278 patients are in city hospitals — 85 of them in ICU — awaiting a final diagnosis.

    By Jane Roberts April 12, 2020
  • Health Care

    Telehealth: The future in medicine becomes reality fast

    Across the Mid-South, practices that barely used telehealth visits before the novel coronavirus arrived have shifted large numbers of patient visits to screen time.

    By Jane Roberts May 04, 2020
  • Health Care

    Malaria drug used in worst COVID-19 cases here; doctors watch closely

    Using hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 is an off-label use, which means the drugs were intended for other uses and are experimental in treatment for the novel coronavirus.

    By Jane Roberts April 09, 2020
  • Health Care

    Massive public health response will be needed for next wave

    A UTHSC symposium outlines the need for data, analysis and a detailed plan as county leaders brace for future outbreaks as well as possible second wave of coronavirus

    By Jane Roberts April 07, 2020
  • Health Care

    Testing continues as 9 residents, 2 employees at Marion nursing home battle COVID-19

    With testing still in progress, Willowbend Healthcare & Rehabilitation in Marion, Arkansas, had 9 residents and 2 workers testing positive for coronavirus. The affected residents were in quarantine at the facility.

    By Wayne Risher April 07, 2020
  • Health Care

    App linking doctors with chronically ill suddenly has bigger universe

    With COVID-19, the small trial at Rentrop Geater clinic in South Memphis could rise to 14,000-15,000, doctors say, and keep people with underlying conditions like diabetes and asthma at home.

    By Jane Roberts April 07, 2020
  • Health Care

    Clusters of infection, testing are concerns as virus spreads

    Heat map shows where positives are clustered now based on where the victims live. A version coming will show outbreaks based on workplace addresses.

    By Jane Roberts April 01, 2020
  • North Memphis

    Tami Sawyer among those getting retested for COVID-19 after delays

    Up to 30 people who have been tested for COVID-19 at Christ Community Health Services have seen their results delayed, including County Commissioner Tami Sawyer. 

    By Omer Yusuf April 01, 2020
  • Health Care

    Hospital load ‘manageable’ now; surge expected in month

    Health department confirms six positive cases in unnamed East Memphis assisted living facility.

    By Jane Roberts March 31, 2020
  • Health Care

    First totals for local COVID testing show a qualified 10% positivity rate

    The number of 2,218 tested in Shelby County comes with no details unlike state numbers that reveal testing by types of labs and age ranges. And because it's a total over a period of time in which the response and other measure to the virus have changed, it is still difficult to tell what the number means.

    By Bill Dries, Jane Roberts March 28, 2020
  • Health Care

    It could take 4-8 weeks to see benefit of ‘Safer at Home,’ Haushalter says

    Confirmation numbers doubling here as model suggests, every five to seven days.

    By Jane Roberts March 25, 2020
  • Health Care

    False test results another challenge of new virus

    Variance exists in the tests themselves and there is no historical data on the percent of false reads clinicians should expect.

    By Jane Roberts March 24, 2020
  • Health Care

    Christ Community holds drive-thru COVID-19 testing

    The organization administered tests to 50 patients, after pooling together resources from throughout its citywide clinics, as test supplies are still in global scarcity.

    By Jared Boyd March 23, 2020
  • Exclusive Health Care

    For first time, Memphis gets sense of how many have been tested

    There is no combined count of how many novel coronavirus tests have been performed by the local health department and private hospitals. But the head of the health department says the number of tests isn't as important as the upward climb in those who test positive.

    By Bill Dries, Jane Roberts March 21, 2020
  • Health Care

    At 30 now, virus spreading in workplaces, social settings

    SCS cancels mass lunch distribution program for students because a food service worker is one of the newly confirmed cases. 

    By Jane Roberts March 20, 2020
  • Health Care

    Health Dept.: County in ‘early stages of community transmission’

    Testing will ramp up soon at Tiger Lane, but will be testing by appointment only. The health department also will begin listing the ages of those confirmed with COVID-19.

    By Jane Roberts March 19, 2020
  • Health Care

    Local COVID-19 test with expedited results expected soon, researchers say

    Le Bonheur pediatrician-in-chief Dr. Jon McCullers, who has worked with the CDC and on past pandemic planning, talked on "Behind The Headlines" about development of a local test at UTHSC. 

    By Bill Dries March 19, 2020
  • Health Care

    Senior facilities care for those most vulnerable to COVID-19

    Area senior care facilities are taking added precautions to protect some of the most vulnerable from the coronavirus.

    By Abigail Warren March 17, 2020
  • Health Care

    Mildly ill? Isolate. Fever, short of breath? Head to ER

    With flu still in the community, not every sniffle and low-grade fever is coronavirus; but isolate yourself to be sure.

    By Jane Roberts March 17, 2020
  • Health Care

    Memphis’ second COVID-19 case is hospital employee

    The employee was exposed to the novel coronavirus by the individual who was the first confirmed case in Shelby County, the hospital system says.

    By Jared Boyd March 15, 2020
  • Health Care

    Hospitals making triage plans, preparing for uptick from rural counties

    Baptist has added a mobile testing unit outside the Emergency Room entrance at its East Memphis hospital.

    By Jane Roberts March 14, 2020
  • Health Care

    Students provide sales pitch for technology developed in Memphis

    Challenge is developing marketing and commercialization paths for local technology, then stepping up to the plate to sell it.

    By Jane Roberts April 16, 2020

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