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Nashville Post: Barry talks Insure Tennessee, Nashville General at VU panel

November 17, 2015
Published November 17, 2015 by Emily Kubis Mayor Megan Barry called for the state legislature to pass Insure Tennessee at a Vanderbilt University-hosted health care panel discussion Monday, but also said creative solutions were needed in the absence of Medicaid expansion. At a panel entitled "Caring for the Uninsured," Barry said there are an estimated 30,000 people in Nashville without insurance.

The Tennessean: Bill Frist's new mission: Making Nashville healthier

October 26, 2015
Holly Fletcher, 10 a.m. CDT October 25, 2015 - Bill Frist wants you to know the poor health of Nashvillians is going to imperil the city's ability to sustain its white-hot growth. The former senator wants you to look at a group of kids on a playground and think about this: nearly one out of three lives in poverty. That's going to drag down the city's future workforce. Department Chair Melinda Buntin is quoted. 

Reuters: Flu-associated pneumonia tied to skipped flu vaccine

October 7, 2015
(Reuters Health) – - The flu vaccine may help prevent flu-related pneumonia, a study suggests. When researchers looked at patients with pneumonia, those whose pneumonia was related to the flu were more likely to have skipped the flu vaccine, compared to patients with pneumonia from other causes.  Pneumonia can be a serious and common complication of catching the flu, the authors write. 
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