An increasing number of Tennessee parents are reporting their families are food insecure. Up more than 30% in just one year, 41.2% of Tennessee parents reported low or very low food security compared to 31.3% last year.

If newer brand-name antiobesity medications were covered by Medicare, they could cost the program between $13.6 to $26.8 billion even with only 10% of people with obesity using them, according to a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers in the Department of Health Policy.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic the rate of Tennessee uninsured children more than doubled as the state experienced the highest spike in un

Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.