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The latest Health coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Coronavirus.
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How a trampoline injury, other escapades helped inspire a Chattanooga business’s text service
The benefits of having a friend who is a doctor were readily apparent to David Kinzler after his son cut his cheek falling off a toy castle.
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Ask a Doctor: Chattanooga surgeon explains Mohs surgery for skin cancer
Mohs surgery is an amazing modality in the realm of skin cancer treatment.
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Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US
Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes.
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America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs
At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “ Black Wall Street,” one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world.
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Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media. The harm is more than skin deep
When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles.
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What to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs
They're sold in gas stations, vape shops, online and in other stores around the country in seemingly countless enticing forms: gummies, chocolate bars, chips. Their packaging lists things like delta-8 THC, micro- and macrodoses of "psychedelics" and "nootropics."
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The new Medicare & You handbook arrives in September
Recently I enrolled in Medicare and have not received my Medicare & You Handbook. I'm concerned about what I should do during the Medicare season that happens in the fall. How do I find out which options are best for me? I have some health problems, and I'm concerned about making the wrong change.
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Here’s what to know about recalled Boar’s Head deli meats linked to a deadly listeria outbreak
A deadly food poisoning outbreak has led to the recall of more than 7 million pounds of popular Boar's Head deli meats made at a plant in Virginia.
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A baby in Gaza has a strain of polio linked to mistakes in eradication campaign, experts say
The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of "an unqualified failure" of public health policy.
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Ultraprocessed foods are everywhere. How bad are they?
Whether they know it or not, most Americans don't go a day — or often a single meal — without eating ultraprocessed foods.
