Updated: 6:34 AM Heart disease kills many women each year in East Tennessee, but women are coming together for a luncheon to take on this killer on Wednesday.

Posted: 5:50 AM The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation.

Posted: 5:42 AM Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to Fidelity Investments.

Posted: 3:07 PM The announcement Tuesday comes a day after a separate consumer protection agreement with the same company resulting in almost $2 million for Tennessee.

Updated: 4:47 PM Cystic Fibrosis Foundation says pharmaceutical company's results is a significant step in their work to defeat the disease.

Posted: 9:20 AM Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says.

Posted: 5:08 AM A professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has received a grant totaling $378,000 to continue arthritis treatment research.

Updated: 9:40 PM More bad news about Americans' waistlines.

Posted: 4:49 PM It's the hottest trend in job-based health insurance: plans that give you a personal savings account for medical bills but also require you to pay a hefty share of costs before coverage kicks in.

Updated: 3:01 PM Tennessee will receive $1.95 million coming from a multistate settlement between a giant pharmaceutical company accused of deceptively marketing the anti-seizure drug Depakote.

Posted: 12:30 PM More bad news about Americans' waistlines: They're only going to get bigger. Already, about a third of people are obese. By 2030, it is estimated 42 percent of the population will be.

Updated: 8:29 PM The tallest man in the United States has traveled from Minnesota to Massachusetts for a custom shoe-fitting with Reebok that he hopes will help him live a normal life.

Updated: 12:13 PM The University of Tennessee Medical Center is collecting ways to help people live healthier lives with a new cookbook.

Posted: 5:21 AM Tossing out President Barack Obama's health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare's payment systems, the administration has quietly informed the courts.

Updated: 10:24 PM A recent study published in the journal of Academy General Dentistry, found an alarming increase in the consumption of sports drinks causing irreversible damage to teeth.

Updated: 11:28 AM From jogging to biking, folks in Colorado know about healthy living. We run, hike, get out with our dogs, and hit up the local farmer’s market.

Posted: 6:08 AM Pat LaFrieda Jr. can't get enough chicken thighs. If his family business featured on the new Food Network series "Meat Men" orders 100 cases of boneless, skinless thighs, his supplier might deliver only 60.

Posted: 5:10 PM The Theatre Development Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on providing access to live theater, bought all 1,797 seats for Sunday's matinee and offered reduced price tickets to families with an autistic member.

Posted: 5:21 AM New research sends a stark warning to overweight teens: If you develop diabetes, you'll have a very tough time keeping it under control.

Posted: 4:16 AM A professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has received grants totaling $2.1 million from the National Institutes of Health.

Updated: 10:31 PM Tennessee is experiencing significant increases in a serious, and sometimes deadly, tick-borne illness this year.

Posted: 4:59 AM The cow that was recently discovered with mad cow disease through routine testing in California had been euthanized after it became lame and started lying down at a dairy, federal officials revealed Thursday.

Posted: 12:24 PM The cancer society on Thursday released new guidelines, saying there's now enough evidence to strongly recommend physical activity and better nutrition for survivors.

Posted: 5:08 AM The announcement that mad cow disease was spotted in a California cow drew a rapid response this week from the beleaguered American beef industry, which has been enduring one crisis after another for more than a year.

Posted: 5:38 PM It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days -- even kidneys and other organs donated for transplant.