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Upstate medical clinics pause Johnson & Johnson vaccination distribution

Following six reported cases of blood clotting in individuals who had received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the South Carolina Department…

Prisma Health announces physician leadership team for first-in-Upstate solid organ transplantation program

The program was announced in February and is expected to begin caring for patients later this year.

Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown tops off new 45,000-square-foot emergency department

The construction project is part renovation and part new construction.

Clemson Corner: Nursing students take pride in knowing they’ve faced down a pandemic

Not many nurses can say they were students during a pandemic, helping to vaccinate the public against a novel disease. But 278 Clemson nursing students can make that claim —…

The comforts of Home

The concept of designing a community to serve the emotional needs of residents with Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia is not a new one, and in Hilltop of Greenville’s case, experience has been the best teacher.

UofSC School of Medicine Greenville Dean Dr. Marjorie Jenkins hopes to ‘make a real difference’

Dr. Marjorie Jenkins’ love of her students reflects the love she felt for this area when she first came from Texas and interviewed for her position back in 2019.

Gray Court Army veteran has successful oral surgery funded by Smiles for Soldiers

32-year-old was born without any adult teeth and has worn dentures since the fourth grade.

Prisma to consolidate vaccine sites due to limited vaccine supply

Prisma has been able to retrieve about six doses safely from each vaccine vial, which had been measured to have five doses in each, allowing it to have given out 142% of the doses the hospital system had been given.

Bob Jones alumni network connects liver patient to a donor

Two weeks after the examinations were conducted, Margaret Stegall received notice that the surgery for her to donate a portion of her liver would take place on Feb. 22.