Health & Wellness

The following statement is attributable to: Susan R. Bailey, M.D. President, American Medical Association “The recommendation approved today by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) supporting the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in […]

WASHINGTON, DC — Pandemic-fueled inequities have surfaced in the small business community. Just from February to April 2020 alone, over 400k, or 41%, of Black-owned businesses were permanently closed, relative to just 17% of white-owned businesses. […]

By Joel White For many Americans, the calamitously slow vaccine roll-out in countries like Germany, France, and Italy comes as a surprise. After all, in the early days of the pandemic, Europe’s response to the […]

By Justice Page, Data News Weekly Contributor The COVID-19 vaccine will become more readily available for more eligible groups beginning in late March as vaccine manufacturers reached a major milestone on March 19th to produce […]

The following statement is attributable to: Susan R. Bailey, M.D. President, American Medical Association “The AMA commends the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for today reaffirming its recommendation on the use of the Janssen […]

Memphis, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases recently awarded a team of UTHSC researchers $1.99 million for their work to advance understanding of the pathophysiology of prediabetes, […]

Jamel Hill, 30, describes his first few months in medical school in 2016 as a “rude awakening.” With few people looking like him in the lecture hall, he felt isolated. But it was some conversations […]

NASHVILLE, TN — Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and […]