Memphis Science & Technology News

Memphis school board president Martavius Jones said the board accepted a $90 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal said school board officials Wednesday lauded the impact the grant and its $1.9 million in...

Social networking can be a gold mine for a company -- if its marketers know how to access and interpret online information and convert it into an income producer. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are great sources of consumer habits, a...

Students sit in fabric slings that suspend them above the floor. (For those who don't like heights, The Yoga Room's slings can be adjusted to hang closer to the floor.) Trained aerial yoga instructors lead students through traditional and more...

As a cardiologist, I've seen firsthand the damage that smoking does to the body. Most patients I have taken care of who have had a heart attack or developed an acute coronary syndrome have a history of smoking or have...

This is a CDC model geared at making kids healthier through access to medical treatment, counseling and education. Funding for school health coordinators had been cut from the state budget but is alive for at least two more years thanks...

Shelby County will begin extensive reviews of each baby death as part of an unprecedented effort to reduce its high rate of infant mortality. The Fetal and Infant-Mortality Review program, funded with a $1.7 million state grant, will have multidisciplinary...

Her hair was growing back, a point she made by exultantly doffing her baseball cap as she passed one tent area. But the sense of triumph was short-lived. "After that, I started going kaput," she says, her tone matter-of-fact. "The...

Statistics show that the number of Tennessee births rose during much of this decade, then suddenly dropped last year. A professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Carol Hogue, is hesitant to attribute...

State auditors are pushing for legislation that would fine court clerks who fail to send the results of criminal cases to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the agency that runs background checks. A state audit has found that confusion, lack...