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State allows Parkridge to build freestanding ER in Cleveland
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (12+ words) State allows Parkridge to build freestanding ER in Cleveland'Chattanooga Times Free Press...
Trump required hospitals to post their prices for patients. Mostly it’s the industry using the data
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (696+ words) The idea echoes a policy implemented during his first term, when Trump suggested that requiring hospitals to post their charges online could ease one of the most common gripes about the health care system " the lack of upfront prices. To…...
First Things First: The family image trap
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (350+ words) Someone extremely close to me has been processing her past for as long as I can remember. She recently told me her childhood felt like living inside a well-decorated secret. Now, decades later, well into what she calls the "last…...
Times Opinion: Letting disease win — FDA’s dangerous refusal of Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (534+ words) The anti-science, anti-medicine mindset of the nutso Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is killing people by quashing life-saving vaccines. There is no other explanation why Moderna's paperwork to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its new mRNA…...
Georgia Senate passes surprise ban on puberty blockers for minors
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (534+ words) Republicans in the Georgia Senate hijacked a bill aimed at increasing access to home health care services by adding two last-minute amendments that would further restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender Georgians. Both amendments and the bill passed in…...
Times Opinion: Tennessee pharmacy closures could be deadly for disabled people
1+ week, 1+ day ago (272+ words) Living in Tennessee is about to become difficult, if not deadly, if lawmakers pass a pharmacy closure bill introduced earlier this month. The bill, SB2040, changes which companies can own pharmacies, and supporters argue it will lower drug prices. The reality…...
Times Opinion: Cervical cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence
1+ week, 1+ day ago (219+ words) February is National Minority Health Month -- a time to bring attention to a disease that should no longer be taking lives, yet continues to do so, especially those of women in Black and rural communities. Before becoming a Southern Rural…...
Indian Health Service to phase out use of dental fillings containing mercury by 2027
1+ week, 2+ day ago (467+ words) The Indian Health Service has used fillings, known as dental amalgams, that contain elemental mercury to treat decayed and otherwise damaged teeth for decades. Native American rights and industry advocates have called for an end to the practice, arguing it…...
Thailand uses a birth control vaccine to curb its elephant population near expanding farms
1+ week, 3+ day ago (475+ words) The initiative is part of efforts to address confrontations that can turn deadly. As farmers cut down forests to make more farmland, elephants are forced to venture out of their shrinking habitats in search of food. Last year, wild elephants…...
Times Opinion: RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is entering a new phase
1+ week, 3+ day ago (156+ words) Times Opinion: RFK Jr.s vaccine skepticism is entering a new phase'Chattanooga Times Free Press Times Opinion: RFK Jr.s vaccine skepticism is entering a new phase The stability of the U.S. vaccine market rests on an obscure $4 billion fund known…...