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.

Advocacy group Stop Animal Experimentation Now asked the agriculture department to investigate a 2019 UTHSC research experiment with baby pigs. The university said the issue was dealt with appropriately.

Within an hour after the launch of a Saturday block party in Frayser, the Street Team for Overdose Prevention had signed up someone in need of rehab, leading one participant to call the event a success. 

With hospitals 90% full in and right at the red range of capacity, leaders are working their plans for the COVID-19 surge.

Ruling seen as a big election-year victory for President Donald Trump, who counts on heavy support from evangelicals and other Christian groups for votes and policy backing.

Pool testing has been used for other diseases for decades; Memphis among first cities to apply for FDA emergency-use approval.

In Shelby County, more than 28% of the people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are Latino. The percentage of positive tests is rising.