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Feature Story Christine Jones and her mother Irma (behind) walk down the hall toward an exam room while being seen at the Guthrie Primary Care Clinic in Smokey City, North Memphis. (Andrea Morales, 2017).

Healthcare has never been equitable and the pandemic is proof

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyThursday, November 12, 2020
Feature Story Kenzie Cleaves stands inside a vacant unit in her North Memphis apartment complex that she said has been unsecured for over a year. Unsafe housing conditions can increase COVID-19-related deaths. (Ziggy Mack)

In poor communities, toxic housing is a risk factor for COVID-19 deaths

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyWednesday, September 30, 2020
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The world is drowning in used face masks. Should we turn them into fuel?

Thursday, September 24, 2020
Feature Story Frank Johnson looks towards North Memphis' Penn A Kem, LLC chemical plant on the left hand side of the road. On the right is Douglass High School. (Ziggy Mack)

The Pandemics: Decades of environmental racism is making COVID-19 more deadly in Black communities

Baris Gursakal & Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Susan Miranda conducts research for University of Tennessee Health Sciences Centers' Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014.

UTHSC hosting second virtual coronavirus symposium July 28

Cole BradleyThursday, July 23, 2020
Feature Story Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Methodist-Le Bonheur creates new role to reduce Mid-South health disparities

Cole BradleyThursday, July 9, 2020
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Could COVID-19 end in better nurses?

Cole BradleyThursday, May 28, 2020
Feature Story Self-portrait by Sepia Coleman.

Home health aide: Working without PPE, sick leave is like ‘going in front of a firing squad’

Wednesday, May 27, 2020
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Healthy Memphis Initiative is using culinary medicine to help Memphians live better and longer

Cole BradleySaturday, May 16, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Susan Miranda conducts research for University of Tennessee Health Sciences Centers' Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014.

Get the facts from local experts. Attend UTHSC's Coronavirus Online Symposium on April 6.

Baris GursakalWednesday, April 1, 2020
Feature Story Amon Dillan walks holds hands with a Harwood Center student was they walk down the hall of their Cordova location inside Hope Church. January 27, 2020. (ZIggy Mack)

Harwood Center, University of Memphis to launch early learning classroom for kids with special needs

Cole BradleyWednesday, February 5, 2020
Feature Story On February 7, “A Family Affair” will feature music, discussions, and games aimed at raising awareness of the need for organ donation among black Mid-Southerners. (Mid-South Transplant Foundation)

Memphis needs more African American organ donors.

A.J Dugger III and Cole BradleyThursday, January 30, 2020
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Healthcare is undeniably one of Memphis' great advantages. The region supports numerous hospitals, including top-ranked providers, and the city is known for its strong foundation in research, bioscience, orthopedics, medical devices, pediatric cancer, and infectious disease. Healthcare is our competitive strength and a gift that we export to the rest of the world; discoveries made here have helped push medicine forward. And with amazing local groups like the Church Health Center working to ensure access, Memphis is moving foward as a healthcare leader and a healthy community.
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