Tennessee has suddenly lost hundreds of millions of dollars as the federal government cancels promised funding, and recent reactions from two prominent elected officials differ sharply.
More whiplash for Tennessee’s Title X family planning funding after Trump freezes and reinstatements
Tennessee’s Title X funding has been on a rollercoaster for years, and the drama is continuing into President Donald Trump’s second term.
Metro Nashville joins lawsuit against federal government again — this time over sudden public health cuts
Metro Nashville and a handful of other local governments are suing the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. The agency cut $11 billion in local public health funding — without warning — earlier this year.
RFK stumps for overdose prevention in Nashville as Tennessee’s death rate declines
Before his appointment as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cast doubt on drugs like methadone, which help opioid use disorder patients stave off withdrawal and cravings. He touted them at the RX and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville.
Study: Rural Tennessee hospitals could lose additional labor and delivery wings
Rural Tennesseans already have limited access to labor and delivery services, and a recent study shows the problem could get worse.
Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response
Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.
NashVillager Podcast: Lethal injection
Can execution be humane? Plus, the local news for April 16, 2025.
Death row lawyers ask governor for another execution moratorium while courts review protocol
Attorneys for nine death row inmates argue the state’s new lethal injection protocol contains even fewer protections than the plan found deficient in 2022.
How Nashville is addressing overdoses in its booming tourism district
Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.
Tennessee lawmakers could pass abortion ban exceptions. What would they include?
Tennessee lawmakers will likely formalize a list of medical conditions that qualify for abortion exceptions — but it won’t include mental health conditions or nonviable pregnancies.
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