Posted: 12:37 PM Tennessee health officials are training nursing home care providers how to treat dementia patients without drugs -- especially those with Alzheimer's disease.

Updated: 12:41 PM Researchers at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), based at UT, think they may be on the way to solving the long-running question: Is homosexuality genetic?

Posted: 6:14 AM It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning, but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation's ability to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.

Posted: 6:11 AM The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers.

Updated: 8:17 AM A new stem cell therapy helps animals with arthritis and could be the answer for humans with more research.

Posted: 6:07 AM To make the high school cheerleading team 40 years ago, twins Deborah and Sandra Fanelli performed an acrobatic move called "the flying splits."

Updated: 2:00 PM Tennessee health officials are once again alerting patients who received tainted steroid injections after finding that some have infections at the injection site that could lead to fungal meningitis.

Posted: 1:53 PM A report says California's stem cell agency needs more independent oversight and recommends a restructuring to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest.

Posted: 6:17 AM Legal marijuana possession becomes a reality under Washington state law on Thursday, and some people planned to celebrate the new law by breaking it.

Posted: 6:15 AM Scanning the genes of a fetus reveals far more about potential health risks than current prenatal testing does, say researchers who compared both methods in thousands of pregnancies nationwide.

Posted: 6:12 AM The findings are a surprise because earlier research suggested that taking the hormone-blocking drug for longer than five years didn't help and might even be harmful.

Posted: 10:01 AM East Tennessee Children's Hospital's emergency room has been swamped with sick kids for the last couple of months, nearly enough to set an all-time record.

Posted: 5:35 AM A new study says basic prescription drug coverage could vary dramatically from state to state under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Posted: 6:11 AM The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you're a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin.

Posted: 5:41 AM Health officials on Monday said suspected flu cases have jumped in five Southern states, and the primary strain circulating tends to make people sicker than other types. It is particularly hard on the elderly.

Posted: 5:34 AM While morning sickness in pregnant women is common, the problem the Duchess of Cambridge has been hospitalized with is not.

Updated: 5:31 AM Qatar — the host of U.N. climate talks that entered their final week Monday — is among dozens of countries that keep gas prices artificially low through subsidies that exceeded $500 billion globally last year.

Updated: 7:55 PM Tennessee residents can now visit a doctor online or by telephone for relief from minor ailments.

Posted: 5:59 AM The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.

Updated: 5:46 AM Two decades later the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral, or ARV, treatment center in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients a day from all over southern Africa.

Updated: 5:46 AM "An AIDS-free generation is not just a rallying cry — it is a goal that is within our reach," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ordered the blueprint, said in the report.

Updated: 11:50 AM Donate a toy this weekend and try Real Hot Yoga for free! Toys collected will be delivered to ETCH.

Posted: 8:46 AM Bounce houses are becoming more popular for kids' birthday parties and other events. But also increasing, are injuries.

Posted: 6:36 AM No prescription or doctor's exam needed: The nation's largest group of obstetricians and gynecologists says birth control pills should be sold over the counter, like condoms.

Posted: 6:31 AM The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the first seasonal flu vaccine made using animal cell technology, rather than the half-century egg method.