It’s not easy to navigate all the resources available in Nashville for mental health support. This Is Nashville invited a few local experts to break down the options available, and invited a few people to describe their own experiences seeking help.
This new nonprofit plans to flood Bonnaroo with overdose reversal drugs
The four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester has experienced overdose deaths in the past. And this year brings elevated concern since powerful fentanyl is showing up in more recreational drugs that are often used by concert-goers.
Vanderbilt professors tackle how to discuss gun violence through disagreement
A Vanderbilt psychiatry professor is warning against polarized responses to the recent spate of high-profile gun violence across the country and in Tennessee. On Tuesday, the university held a panel discussion on navigating the gun debate, featuring professors on the left, right and center.
Barbed wire is going up on the beautiful but dangerous Natchez Trace Bridge
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.
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