Daily Archives: May 28, 2020

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NEW: Portraits of COVID nurses, by COVID nurses

When you hear calls to honor the front-line workers dealing with the pandemic — here are the faces of some of the people they’re talking about. Continue reading

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NEW: Experts offer tips for managing and monitoring adolescent mental health

The mental health of children and adolescents appears to be suffering as weeks of safer-at-home orders and other social distancing protocols continue to be enforced. Continue reading

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NEW: Pediatric traumas rose as children stayed home more

During the first few weeks of Tennessee’s statewide Stay-At-Home order, physicians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital noticed an interesting pattern — a higher volume of pediatric traumas, including ATV accidents, dirt bike accidents and pellet … Continue reading

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NEW: Research probes why COVID-19 seems to spare young children

Lung disease experts at VUMC discovered that children have lower levels of an enzyme the COVID-19 virus needs to invade airway epithelial cells in the lung. Continue reading

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Baseline Disease Activity and Steroid Therapy Stratify Risk of COVID-19 in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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