The National Park Service is installing chain-link fencing on the Natchez Trace Double Arch Bridge in Williamson County, meant as a temporary solution to thwart suicide attempts. Work began this week.
Nashville residents underrepresented in medical research are offering up DNA samples despite their privacy concerns
The “All of Us” research program is focused on recruiting people of color, primarily, to build a diverse, million-patient databank, which Vanderbilt Medical Center will help manage.
To fill clinical roles, Vanderbilt begins training truck drivers, cleaning workers and other existing staff
Vanderbilt has more than 100 openings for medical assistants, with people leaving all the time. So the health system put out the offer to its 29,000 employees: We’ll pay you while you train.
As COVID cases rise again, Tennessee is ‘trying to develop a truce with this virus’
COVID is creeping back up in Tennessee. From positivity rates to hospitalizations — the numbers are heading in the wrong direction. But this is not a new variant, but rather a new round of slightly mutated omicron.
How should we talk to kids about mass shootings? A Tennessee child specialist offers guidance in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting.
Following traumatic mass casualty events, like school shootings, Dr. Jessika Boles, a child life specialist at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, advises creating a safe space for children to freely ask questions and share their feelings.
Nashville health officials want more people carrying Narcan as overdoses spike, but how?
Public health officials are encouraging more Tennessee residents to carry the overdose reversal drug naloxone because of a sharp rise in drug deaths. But acquiring doses of the pricey Narcan nasal spray takes some maneuvering.
Tennessee OB-GYNs say state’s looming abortion ban threatens treatment for miscarriages
Tennessee’s trigger ban would outlaw virtually all abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned, except if the life of the mother is in jeopardy. But OB-GYNs say the law could also complicate care for miscarriages.
Nashville honors Dr. Josie Wells, who helped lead Meharry before women could vote
Nashville officials are dedicating a historical marker on the campus of Meharry Medical College Friday to honor one of the first women to get her medical degree from the historically Black institution.
This rural Tennessee county was a vaccine success story. Not anymore.
At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place. A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much of the past year has reported the highest covid-19 vaccination rate in Tennessee and one of the highest in the South. Meigs County, which […]
Meharry and Tennessee’s transplant agency team up as HBCUs focus on disparities in organ donation
Nashville’s Meharry Medical College is partnering with Tennessee’s organ donation agency for a pilot program focused on increasing diversity in the field of organ transplant. It’s part of a national initiative announced earlier this month.
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