St. Jude’s global arm is helping connect childhood cancer patients evacuating Ukraine with hospitals across Europe. Soon they may also come to the U.S.
Reflecting on two years of COVID-19 with Dr. Alex Jahangir
It’s been two years since the first known COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Tennessee. This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona spoke to Metro Coronavirus Task Force Chair Dr. Alex Jahangir about what has changed since March 2020. Jahangir also reflected on what it was like to be asked by Nashville Mayor John Cooper to take on this […]
A shortage of high-level life support in Tennessee led to more COVID deaths, study finds
A new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center followed COVID patients in dire need of high-level life support in the form of ECMO. It finds that hospital capacity shortages resulted in unnecessary deaths.
Two years in, 25,000 Tennesseans have died of COVID and hospitals are reporting widespread burnout
On Saturday, Tennessee hit two years since the first case of COVID was confirmed in Tennessee. By the numbers, the state has tracked more than 2 million cases and will likely break 25,000 deaths this week.
At the statehouse: Republican lawmakers move to erase LGBTQ issues from schools, slap librarians with misdemeanors and threaten felonies for abortion pill providers
The General Assembly has kicked into high gear as we cross the halfway mark of session. This week featured hours-long debates, increasingly punitive bills and protests outside the capitol.
As more women seek abortion pills, Tennessee lawmakers are cracking down on them
Tennessee’s legislature is joining a few other Republican-led states in advancing new restrictions on abortion pills, which have grown more common than surgical abortions. A bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party line vote Tuesday night would add criminal penalties.
Dentists could get higher pay from Medicaid as part of Tennessee’s proposed expansion
Dentists are generally supportive of Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand dental coverage to everyone on TennCare. But they’re reserving their full-throated support until the details are worked out.
Tennessee’s $600M opioid settlement win will be split more than 100 ways, over the next 18 years
In the the biggest such windfall since the nationwide tobacco settlement, money from the $26 billion opioid settlement could begin flowing to Tennessee as soon as April.
Tennessee stimulus group struggles to ‘pick winners and losers’ in doling out $275M
More than 60 organizations — both nonprofit and for-profit — have applied for the funding earmarked for “external” groups.
Metro’s school board will debate dropping mask requirement on Tuesday
Metro Nashville Public Schools is having its first serious discussion about dropping universal mask requirements, which have been in place ever since in-person school resumed.
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