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Patients can visit Erlanger Medical Mall to learn how to love their skin
Changes are coming to the Erlanger Medical Mall, with the addition of Dr. Rachel Murray to its dermatology office, which will reopen downtown Oct. 1.
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CHI Memorial bringing rehab services to Ooltewah
Estimated cost of project just under $80 million
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Can I use my HSA card to pay my Medicare premium?
Dear Toni, My Medicare starts Oct. 1, and I received my first bill, due on Sept. 25, about a week ago.
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‘A magical thing:’ At Chattanooga dementia ministry, the elderly seize the day
Jackson Yium arrived in Chattanooga decades ago to work as a nephrologist at an early dialysis clinic. It was the early days of a treatment that today adds years to people's lives, he recalled one morning recently, and he taught at Erlanger too.
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The first year of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement is mired in red tape
On a recent summer evening, Raymia Taylor wandered into a recreation center in a historical downtown neighborhood, the only enrollee to attend a nearly two-hour event for people who have signed up for Georgia's experimental Medicaid expansion.
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‘What happens three months from now?’ Mental health after Georgia high school shooting
About an hour after gunfire erupted at Apalachee High School, ambulances started arriving at nearby Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow with two students and two adults suffering from panic attacks and extreme anxiety, not bullet wounds.
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First positive measles case found in Tennessee since 2019
Tennessee reported its first case of the measles virus in 2024, which has swept through states nationwide.
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Study finds toxic metals in tampons: FDA launches investigation
The Food and Drug Administration announced it has started a research project examining the possible effects of toxic metals in tampons, sparking concerns about products used by millions of women in the U.S.
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Tennessee public clinics resume offering birth control, sexual disease tests to unaccompanied teens
Tennessee teens seeking birth control or sexually transmitted infection tests can return to their local public health clinic without a parent — a partial reversal of a six-week-old state policy that has forced public health workers to turn away minors.
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A remote tribe is reeling from widespread illness and cancer. What role did the US government play?
The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides.
