The federal government has yet to release information on when — or whether — it will continue to provide COVID-19 vaccines to low-income children through a free immunization program, raising alarms among some Tennessee health providers ahead of this Fall’s respiratory illness season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccines for Children program routinely […]

Standing under an eastern hemlock tree near a thicket of lizard’s tail in her backyard — a tick’s dream — Casey Hamaker had flashbacks to the day she first contracted alpha-gal syndrome, a mysterious illness spreading rapidly across the United States. “This is the scene of the crime,” she said. As she was clearing brush […]