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KINGSPORT — ETSU Health Family Medicine’s street medicine program expanded its reach with its first Kingsport clinic on Thursday.The program, which started in Johnson City earlier this year, cares for people experiencing homelessness while simultaneously training resident doctors through hands-on learning in their communities. It is funded by a $2.4 million Health Resources and Services…

Vaccine hesitancy and politics continue. Years of loud skepticism and outright campaigns against vaccination seem to have taken their toll; a decrease in vaccine use has resulted in a resurgence of measles and other public health threats. Yet the government, which has a responsibility for public health, persists in making vaccine recommendations that are not…

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 77-year-old man who’s prediabetic. I was told by a longtime diabetic that sugar (candy, soda, cake, etc.) doesn’t need to be avoided — just carbohydrates such as pasta, potatoes, etc. I was surprised to hear this. Is it really true?

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N.Y. (WBNG) — Tioga County Public Health (TCPH) is investigating a single confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated resident

Firefighters operate in environments defined by disrupted sleep, cumulative stress and repeated exposure to trauma. For decades, however, fire station design prioritized apparatus and response over recovery and behavioral health

UPPER EAST SIDE (WABC) –The NYC Health Department has announced two more deaths in the Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease cluster

JPS Health Network on Friday said it has made major progress toward resuming routine operations, bringing its core electronic health record system back online and accepting ambulances carrying trauma, stroke, and heart attack patients again

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Friday says a human case of influenza A H1N2 swine flu was detected in a person who was a participant at the Kent County Youth Fair

Va. (WVIR) -UVA Health’s mobile mammography unit has partnered with Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry to offer free breast cancer screenings to community members in need