Elizabeth Fite

Zandra Strickland has lived in her Orchard Knob home for 18 years, but until recently she was worried her days there might be numbered.

Ava has ascended to the top spot on the list of most popular names for baby girls born in Tennessee in 2019.

A Chattanooga college student has a plan to make grocery shopping less stressful for people with food allergies.

The health of low-income people declined more in Southern states that didn't expand Medicaid than in those Southern states that did, with Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama ranking worst, respectively, according to a new study.

A 40-something-year-old health care regulation meant to control costs that may actually do the opposite is a likely legislative target for Tennessee's General Assembly in 2020.

But health advocates say the Trump administration didn't go far enough and caved to industry pressure.

Single parents, seniors, sick people and others struggling to bounce back from misfortune — these were some of the individuals helped by the Chattanooga Times Free Press Neediest Cases Fund throughout 2019.

Last year was a busy one for health news in Tennessee.

A total of 620 children will have undergone sleep studies at the Children's Hospital at Erlanger by the end of 2019.

Help comes in many forms, and it doesn't have to be financial. Carmen Hutson said one of the Chattanooga area community's greatest needs is more employers and ones who are willing to accept people with criminal records, especially felons.

Some providers who infuse specialty drugs say a new policy from Tennessee's largest health insurance company could cause them to end the service, threatening their practice and forcing patients to find a new place to receive their life-changing drug infusions.

School bus driver Dave Albert found himself in a tight spot when Hamilton County Schools changed its bus service provider from Durham School Services to First Student Inc. this spring.

Fifty-eight-year-old Edward Hughes III is no stranger to hard work, but he was struggling to keep his head above water.

Children's Hospital at Erlanger was one of 120 hospitals in the nation to be named a 2019 Top Hospital by The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization focused on health care safety and quality.

Eleventh-grader Christina Fischborn stood on her school's athletic field Wednesday morning and recalled a time she was playing soccer after a hard rain.

This year's influenza season is starting early compared to the last two years, as local reports of flu-like illness are on the rise through early December, according to an alert from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department.

More Tennessee children with developmental disabilities will have access to needed services through a new Siskin Children's Institute office in Nashville, which is set to open in January 2020.

Chattanooga Fire Department Capt. Skyler Phillips fought back tears Tuesday as he told City Council members the story of a nearly blind woman with broken glasses who used to regularly call 911 seeking help after tripping and falling.

In mid-November, 30 leaders in the health care, academic and business communities traveled north to Cincinnati, Ohio, to see in practice what for years has only been a vision for many Chattanoogans: a unified district dedicated to medicine, education and research.

Practice Management and Resources promises to help physicians in Middle and East Tennessee and North Georgia walk away from employment and into a turnkey practice.