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.”

The Chris Hope Foundation is celebrating its five-year anniversary and a new house for families with a child in one of the Memphis children's hospitals should be ready in September.

Dr. Jeff Warren says Shelby County now has "too many people who are sick to be able to randomly test people who aren’t." 

Outreach includes immediate efforts to boost human papillomavirus vaccination rates here and across the Southeast. Tennessee ranks 37th in the nation. 

The $5.9 million investment from NIH builds on $10.8 million the University of Memphis and its partner universities received in 2014 to make better use of medical data collected by sensor devices.

Argument continues on the value of live vaccines to stimulate the immune system in the fight against COVID-19; there is no randomized study yet to prove it.

Local entrepreneurs saw market opportunities in the medical industry for their products and services, and will be looking for additional seed capital to move forward. 

Ten to 15 years ago, the notion that bacteria could be in the blood was heresy. Now, it may be the reason dialysis patients often die of heart attacks while they await kidney transplant.

UTHSC physician-scientist was part of the original leadership team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. He led the sequencing of RNA, which controls abnormal genetic expression in cancer cells. 

Church Health has added paid physicians to cover the load of the recently unemployed, plus spending thousands of dollars a month on PPE. 

The pandemic is now layered onto the everyday statistics of depression and suicide, which counselor Grace McLaren called a dangerous brew.