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How pesticides, Monsanto and ‘buried’ scientific evidence converge in a proposed Tennessee law

Caroline Eggers

March 31, 2025

Pesticide companies are among the wealthiest corporations in the world. Take Bayer: The chemical and pharmaceutical corporation made about half of its $50 billion revenue last year from pesticide and seed sales.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bayer, cancer, chemicals, fossil fuels, Monsanto, pesticides, pollution

A fossil fuel may be rebranded ‘renewable energy’ under proposed Tennessee law

Caroline Eggers

March 7, 2025

Tennessee may become the first state to legally define gas as “renewable energy.” State law currently defines natural gas as “clean energy.”

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, fossil fuels, methane, renewable energy, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee’s medical research is in limbo while the Trump administration considers illegal budget cuts

Catherine Sweeney

February 11, 2025

The Trump administration announced it would make major cuts to National Institutes of Health grants. Tennessee gets around $700 million a year in NIH funding. The money goes to universities, hospitals and biomedical companies.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, health access, health disparities, health policy, medical research, Trump Administration

Tennessee ranks 4th for rural hospitals dropping cancer services. Here’s how that affects patients.

Catherine Sweeney

September 24, 2024

Listen

Carla Rider is sitting with her mother-in-law at a table in the common area. It has a kitchen with several stoves, stainless steel refrigerators and sinks. A few travel-size cereal boxes lie around for the taking.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer

About half of Tennessee’s rural hospitals have dropped chemotherapy over the past decade

Catherine Sweeney

August 15, 2024

The drop in chemotherapy services is especially concerning because of Tennessee’s high cancer rates, as an estimated 43,000 residents will get a diagnosis this year.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, chemotherapy, hospital service cuts, hospital-insurer negotiations

Should environmental racism be a factor in allowing industries to pollute? Tennessee’s attorney general says no.

Caroline Eggers

April 23, 2024

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a petition last week to prevent EPA from considering race when regulating pollution. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, chemicals, environmental justice, fossil fuels, memphis, pipeline, pollution

Early detection can save lives for breast and cervical cancer patients. Uninsured Tennesseans can get tested for free.

Catherine Sweeney

March 20, 2024

Metro Public Health’s governing board is expected to sign off on another year of state funding for breast and cervical cancer screening this week.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cervical cancer, Metro Public Health, Metro Public Health Department

Doctors must deliver more bad news to patients, as a worldwide cancer drug shortage hits Nashville

Catherine Sweeney

July 5, 2023

Two of the most common chemotherapy drugs — including the only drug known to cure testicular cancer — are in short supply. It means oncologists are having to ration drugs and tweak treatment plans.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, chemotherapy, drug shortage, FDA, health access, oncology

The latest ‘forever chemical’ PFAS lawsuit is coming from Tennessee

Caroline Eggers

June 30, 2023

Manufacturers buried evidence of harm. Health studies flagged cancer risks. Citizens reported contamination.  Then, states started suing.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, Jonathan Skrmetti, PFAS, pollution, Tennessee Attorney General, water pollution

First Ukrainian child cancer patients fly to St. Jude in Memphis as part of mass evacuation

Blake Farmer

March 22, 2022

Patient transport

Four Ukrainian children being treated for cancer have been flown to Memphis for care. They’re the first to take medical transports to the U.S. as part of a war evacuation coordinated by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: cancer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Ukraine

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