Abortion rights supporters in Tennessee say a recent court ruling is a victory, but a small one. The ruling will protect emergency abortions in very limited situations.
Tennessee replaced its federal HIV funding with state money. Public health experts say the change is causing damage.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee made waves in early 2023, when he rejected millions of dollars in federal HIV prevention programming. Since then, the state has been replacing that money, but that new process is already causing damage, according to public health experts.
Tennessee judges say doctors can’t be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
The Thursday ruling also outlined specific pregnancy-related conditions that would now qualify as “medical necessity exceptions” under the ban. The current law does not include exemptions for fetal anomalies or for victims of rape or incest.
Your Turn To Talk: Navigating our health care system
Navigating our health care system is rarely easy, but it’s especially difficult when you don’t know who to go to with questions.
Tennessee’s Medicaid program started covering DNA mapping to find genetic conditions
This year, Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that makes sure the state’s Medicaid program, TennCare, covers rapid whole genome sequencing.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will stop accepting Blue Cross’ Medicare Advantage plan
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University Medical Center reached an agreement this summer to make sure patients could continue paying in-network prices. But that deal didn’t include members using Medicare Advantage. Those patients will lose in-network status at the end of the year.
Tennessee ranks 4th for rural hospitals dropping cancer services. Here’s how that affects patients.
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.
NashVillager Podcast: Where public opinion and public health collide
Why didn’t the pandemic produce a modern-day figure like Typhoid Mary? Plus the local news for September 23, 2024.
Tennessee’s kindergarten vaccination rate is slipping, as more parents opt out of shots or get them late
More Tennessee kindergarteners are missing their required vaccines, and it’s not only because more parents are opting out. There are also more children missing shots without exemptions.
The end of summer means ragweed misery for Middle Tennessee. Here are some tips.
If you’ve been itchy, struggling to breathe through your nose and had a swollen, sore throat, there may be one seasonal culprit: ragweed.
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