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The latest Health coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Coronavirus.
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Ask a Doctor: Taking medication correctly helps determine its effectiveness
Q: What are some effective practices for taking daily medications?
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A growing number of Oregon cities vote to ban psychedelic mushroom compound psilocybin
Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms.
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Alabama unlikely to revisit abortion ban despite success in other states
When the Alabama Legislature approved a near-total abortion ban in 2019, some Republican legislators downplayed the impact, saying the legislation was meant as a challenge to Roe v. Wade and the state would revisit the issue if Roe fell, possibly in a "heartbeat" bill that would ban the procedure at about six weeks after conception.
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2025 Part D plan does not cover my expensive insulin brand … what do I do?
Toni, In 2022, the Toni Says Medicare team enrolled me in Medicare with a supplement and Part D plan, including my prescriptions that had copay only.
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Second Australian teen dies in tainted alcohol case in Laos that has killed 6 tourists
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning of foreign tourists to six.
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US towns plunge into debates about fluoride in water
For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy town north of New York City.
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TennCare seeks $975M in additional funding tied to medical costs, price of new obesity drugs
TennCare – the state Medicaid program that pays the medical bills of 1.4 million low-income Tennesseans – is seeking a $975 million budget boost next year driven in large part by rising medical costs.
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Trump promises clean water. Will he clean up ‘forever chemicals’?
These chemicals are in the tap water of the majority of Americans, and the Trump administration could decide their fate.
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Five ways RFK Jr. could undermine lifesaving childhood vaccines
For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has leveraged his famous name, his celebrity connections and his nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, to spread misinformation about vaccines and call their safety and efficacy into question. Soon, he might have the power to go much further.
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Pay first, deliver later: Some women are being asked to prepay for their baby
In April, just 12 weeks into her pregnancy, Kathleen Clark was standing at the receptionist window of her OB-GYN's office when she was asked to pay $960, the total the office estimated she would owe after she delivered.
