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HealthQ: Could Your Kid Benefit From Counseling? Experts Offer 3 Questions To Help You Decide

By Blake FarmerandCara Anthony

June 5, 2026

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Anxious kids can benefit from counseling, but therapy demands a commitment of money and time. Therapists recommend using three criteria to help determine when challenging behavior rises to the level of needing professional help.

Filed Under: Health Care, HealthQ Tagged With: Healthcare, kids, mental health, therapy

Tennessee court denies independent exam after Tony Carruthers’ failed execution

By Catherine Sweeney

June 2, 2026

After the state of Tennessee failed in its attempt to execute Tony Carruthers last month, defense attorneys were in a mad dash to preserve evidence. Tennessee Department of Correction staff and medical contractors had tried to establish an IV into Carruthers’ arms — and, when that failed, a doctor tried twice to cut into his […]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: capital punishment, death penalty, lethal injection, lethal injection protocol, Tennessee Department of Correction, Tony Carruthers

HealthQ: Focused on work, needed at home – a federal caregiving policy might help

By Katherine Ruppelt, Cara AnthonyandBlake Farmer

May 29, 2026

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The Family and Medical Leave Act gives eligible employees up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave for caregiving. But the federal policy has noteworthy limitations. The HealthQ team explains.

Filed Under: Health Care, HealthQ, WPLN News Tagged With: Caregiving, Employee benefit, FMLA, Work Leave

This Tennessee town’s only hospital closed without warning. Two years later it still hasn’t reopened. | Healthcare Hollow

By Pierce Gentry, WUOT

May 27, 2026

A Tennessee coal mining town made headlines when its only hospital was abruptly shut down in 2024. Since then, efforts by Jellico’s government to revive the abandoned hospital have fallen short.

Filed Under: Health Care, Healthcare Hollow, WPLN News Tagged With: East Tennessee, Healthcare Hollow, Jellico, rural health, rural hospitals

Nashville nurse convicted in patient’s death is now a national speaker on hospital safety

By Blake Farmer

May 24, 2026

People demonstrate outside the courthouse where the sentencing hearing for former nurse RaDonda Vaught was held on May 13, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn.

RaDonda Vaught was convicted of negligent homicide after dispensing the wrong drug to a patient. She now gives speeches about hospital safety in an era of automation and artificial intelligence.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: medical errors, nursing, RaDonda Vaught

A crisis of conscience spurred this Christian IVF doctor’s career pivot

By The Associated Press

May 12, 2026

A Tennessee doctor is practicing reproductive medicine aligned with his Christian faith. Dr. John Gordon’s Knoxville clinic limits how many embryos it creates and does not discard viable embryos, genetically test them or donate them to science. His clinic draws patients nationwide.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Catholicism, Fertility, IVF, Knoxville, Religon, reproductive health

Tennessee to track transgender patients, put trans women in male prisons

By Marianna Bacallao

May 2, 2026

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved several bills legislating Tennessee’s LGBTQ community.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, anti-lgbt legislaton, Bill Lee, Dahron Anneliese Johnson, Emily Benedict, gender-affirming care, Jeremy Faison, lgbtq, Nashville Metro Council, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Equality Project, tnleg, tnpol, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

Tennessee’s abortion ban won’t go on trial as attorney general taps new law

By Catherine Sweeney

April 28, 2026

After three years, a high-profile lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban has been canceled as the state’s attorney general exercises a new appeals process.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, Allie Phillips, Center for Reproductive Rights, Jonathan Skrmetti

Pharmacy company crackdown coming to Tennessee; CVS pledges to sue

By Catherine Sweeney

April 22, 2026

The Tennessee House and Senate have passed the so-called Fair RX Act after a multi-million dollar opposition campaign from pharmacy giant CVS.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bobby Harshbarger, CVS, Fair RX act, PBMs, pharmacy, pharmacy benefit managers, Tennessee General Assembly

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