Health
The latest Health coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Coronavirus.
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What to know about the Ebola outbreak blamed for scores of deaths in Congo
Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province, the 17th since the disease first emerged in the country in 1976.
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UnitedHealth tracks workers’ AI use in push to transform company
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is tracking how often some employees use artificial intelligence tools as part of a push to embed the technology throughout its operations, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill, while lawsuit plays out
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.
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Erlanger East Hospital embarks on $122M expansion to serve growing area
Erlanger will expand its Erlanger East Hospital in East Brainerd through a $122 million project centered on a new three-story medical building.
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Doctor on ship who helped care for passengers with hantavirus leaves medical isolation unit
An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board.
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With a friend in Trump, the tobacco industry secures a lucrative win
Over lunch at his golf club in Jupiter, Florida, on the first Saturday of May, President Donald Trump got an earful from a group of tobacco executives and lobbyists unhappy with the way the Food and Drug Administration was regulating their industry.
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Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV
Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells.
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What to know about hantavirus, the illness linked to a cruise ship outbreak
An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three passengers dead and sickened others, but global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because the germ does not easily spread between people.
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Pediatrics group issues new guidance on recess for the first time in 13 years
Recess isn't just a fun break for grade schoolers. It's crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages.
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Supreme Court temporarily extends women’s access to a widely used abortion pill
The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.
