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Children are at higher risk for gun violence since the pandemic began, according to two new studies of child gunshot victims treated at Le...
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Children are at higher risk for gun violence since the pandemic began, according to two new studies of child gunshot victims treated at Le...
Just before the old health department building on Jefferson was demolished in 2021, the new health department director went back to the fifth floor...
Shelby County’s two-decade effort to reduce infant mortality has been a stunning success by many measures. Babies here are twice as likely to be...
When they joined a religious order decades ago, Maureen Griner and Margaret Ann Zinselmeyer took vows of poverty. The Ursuline Sisters of Mount St....
Several weeks ago, Amy Posey, a mother who lives in Germantown in North America, met Medena Murray, a mother who lives in Georgetown in...
A ribbon-cutting ceremony usually signals a grand opening, a new beginning. But the recent ceremony at the Lisieux Community Women’s Drop-In Center marked an...
For the first time in a decade, the Shelby County Health Department is taking a comprehensive look at community health needs. The process, expected...
As she moved forward to receive communion, the retired bishop’s wife became more and more confused. The bishop, walking beside her, noticed her distress....
There’s no great mystery about why teen births have been declining steadily in Shelby County for 15 years. “Education and contraception work,” said Ashley...
Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old single mother of two, lives on a street in South Memphis that has more vacant lots and abandoned houses than...