Posted: 6:52 AM A new global plan aims to end most cases of polio by late next year, and essentially eradicate the paralyzing disease by 2018 — if authorities can raise the $5.5 billion needed to do the work, health officials said.
Posted: 6:49 AM Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they don't accurately project their income.
Posted: 2:02 PM The University of Tennessee Medical Center is teaming up with the College of Nursing and Student Health Center on Wednesday to help make sure the whole UT family stays healthy.
Posted: 12:54 PM Gov. Bill Haslam says his pursuit of a special deal on Medicaid expansion in Tennessee is no "fool's errand," and that a deal could still be struck at any time.
Posted: 6:36 AM Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans.
Posted: 7:35 AM How do you convince millions of average Americans that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good deal for them?
Posted: 7:32 AM Novartis had argued that it needed a patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec, while activists said the drug did not merit intellectual property protection in India because it was not a new medicine.
Posted: 7:18 AM The burly Hargrave's head was filled with dreams of playing college baseball as he strode into the gym, stretched out on a bench and pressed 300 pounds above his body. Again and again.
Posted: 6:49 AM Health officials say at least 24 people have become sick from an outbreak of E. coli infections linked to frozen snack foods marketed to children.
Posted: 5:58 AM The dean of the University of Tennessee's College of Nursing says there's a shortage of pediatric and neonatal nurse practitioners.
Posted: 4:39 PM A proposal is advancing in the Legislature that would allow at least two epinephrine auto-injectors to be placed in all public and private schools in Tennessee.
Updated: 8:16 AM Rich Products Corp. has announced a voluntary recall of its Farm Rich Mini Quesadillas and other Farm Rich products because of a possible E. coli contamination.
Posted: 6:21 AM Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.
Posted: 6:19 AM One analysis suggests that among men whose family history gives them roughly a 20 percent lifetime risk for prostate cancer, such genetic markers could identify those whose real risk is 60 percent.
Updated: 6:17 AM A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Posted: 6:13 AM Surveys show most Americans would rather die at home than in a hospital. Now, a new government study suggests more and more people getting their wish.
Updated: 3:45 PM The findings have specialists considering steps that parents might take to spur math abilities, just like they do to try to raise a good reader.
Updated: 5:43 PM Free tests and screenings include: blood pressure, kidneys, prostate cancer and many more, thanks to the 100 Black Men 7th Annual Health Fair.
Posted: 8:33 AM Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic "no."
Updated: 12:41 PM Health officials say the flu season is winding down, and it has killed 105 children — about the average toll.
Posted: 1:54 PM In half the states, mainly led by Democrats, officials are racing deadlines to connect uninsured residents to coverage now only months away. In others it's as if "Obamacare" had never passed.
Posted: 6:10 AM The nation's most influential pediatrician's group has endorsed gay marriage, saying a stable relationship between parents regardless of sexual orientation contributes to a child's health and well-being.
Posted: 6:08 AM The researchers say the findings reveal a common practice among doctors and should be used to change official guidance about using placebos.
Posted: 6:06 AM Critics, however, slammed the decision as a breach of ethics, saying there were already safe methods like egg donation to allow people to have children without mitochondria defects.
