Nashville’s public health department is currently limiting monkeypox vaccine to those who are close contacts of the few confirmed cases.
Biden admin will allow TennCare’s controversial block grant, with some caveats
The Biden administration is making TennCare’s new block grant, approved under President Trump, more tenable to Democrats who fought it from the start. And TennCare officials say they’re open to alterations, though they have yet to submit a formal response.
Nashville-based Aegis lab tapped to help U.S. ramp up its monkeypox testing
A Nashville-based lab company is working with the U.S. government to increase monkeypox testing capacity, and the lab is relying on some of the same equipment it acquired to expand the country’s capacity for COVID testing.
Nashville’s monkeypox case count is growing, but here’s why it’s nothing like COVID
As of Monday, Davidson County has three lab-confirmed cases of monkeypox, a virus that began popping up in unexpected parts of the world in May. Nashville’s cases are the first identified in Tennessee, but they do not appear connected.
Biden executive order could provide some small protections for Tennesseans seeking abortions
In most cases, abortion is expected to become completely illegal after fertilization in Tennessee in mid-August.
First case of monkeypox detected in Nashville. What to know and what to watch for.
The Metro Public Health Department says an individual tested positive after traveling out of the country, but the CDC will conduct another round of testing to confirm the results.
Abortion medication goes underground in Tennessee
At a rally in Nashville, Planned Parenthood organizer Julie Edwards looked out at some of the “back alley abortion” imagery on signs, including bloody coat hangers. But Edwards told the crowd, driven into the streets by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on abortion rights, that it’s not like the old days before Roe v. Wade.
Nashville leaders propose paying travel costs for Metro employee abortions
Nashville leaders are pushing for the Metro government to reimburse travel expenses for any employee who has to travel outside of Tennessee for an abortion.
An anti-abortion pregnancy center in Nashville was vandalized overnight
The FBI is joining a Nashville police investigation into an attempted arson at Hope Clinic for Women, which is known for discouraging its patients from seeking abortions. Local police say this is the first local act of vandalism related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Explainer: How the Dobbs decision affects Tennesseans’ reproductive options
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health has already dramatically changed the landscape for abortion rights in Tennessee. Here’s an explanation of what’s changed in Tennessee and the services that are still available.
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