Health
The latest Health coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Coronavirus.
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About 600 CDC workers are expected to be permanently fired after latest round of cuts
Public health experts in Georgia are speaking out against furloughs at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention they say have left hundreds of employees at the agency unemployed as the federal government shutdown enters its third week.
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CVS polishes off deal to buy former Rite Aid stores, prescription files
CVS has finished buying customer prescription files from hundreds of closed Rite Aid drugstores and is now running 63 of the defunct chain’s locations.
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Can a new nasal spray be used instead of an EpiPen?
Q: I heard there's a new nasal spray that can be used instead of an EpiPen. Is that true?
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President Donald Trump is in ‘exceptional health,’ his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed
President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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Shutdown could imperil food aid program for 150,000 Tennessee women, children
A patchwork of funding is keeping a federal food aid program for low-income mothers and their young children open amid the partial government shutdown. But states could be forced to carry the program's costs if Congress fails to reopen the federal government soon, experts have said.
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Sewanee to have dorm tested for mold following student report
Officials at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, have confirmed that a report of suspected mold in a dorm room in the school's Johnson Hall is being investigated by a contract company after university officials "found no visible presence" during an in-house inspection.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds alarm over expiring health care subsidies as shutdown continues
As the government shutdown drags into its second week, Georgia's congressional delegation is locked in a partisan struggle over who is to blame, with one of the state's most high-profile Republicans, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, seemingly charting her own political path by challenging both parties on the issue of rising health care costs.
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Nuclear missile workers are contracting cancer. They blame the bases
At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs
A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump's orders aimed at curtailing “radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology."
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At the center of shutdown fight, health care is one of the most intractable issues in Congress
Democrats believe health care is an issue that resonates with a majority of Americans as they demand an extension of subsidies for their votes to reopen the shuttered U.S. government. But it is also one of the most intractable issues in Congress — and a real compromise is unlikely to be easy, or quick.
