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Covenant Health To Expand Fort Loudon Medical Center In Lenoir City, Tennessee
Covenant Health (Knoxville, Tenn.) broke ground on the Brethen Foundation Advanced Care Wing at Fort Loudon Medical Center in Lenoir City, Tenn. The $15 million expansion project will increase the nonprofit hospital’s size by 19,000 square feet and add 26 patient rooms for intensive and immediate care, a nurses’ station, and family waiting area. Construction is slated for completion in late spring 2025. The post Covenant Health To Expand Fort Loudon Medical Center In Lenoir City, Tennessee first appeared on healthcare
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Maria Menounos Saw Signs of Pancreatic Cancer a Year Before Her Diagnosis — Here’s What Doctors Missed
It was almost a year ago, in December 2022, that Maria Menounos was given the terrifying diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. In the months since then, the TV and podcast host has undergone surgery to remove the tumor (as well as her spleen, a fibroid, and 17 lymph nodes) and become a passionate advocate working to raise awareness about the disease. It’s an important role, because pancreatic cancer can be tough to diagnose, according to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN); both shek
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Alysia Reiner Is Putting Out Literal & Figurative Fires, One Cause at a Time
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Sophia Bush Is Embarrassed With the Fact That Women’s Health Is Still Considered ‘Taboo’
During a recent word association game with Sophia Bush, the actress shared what she thought of when she heard terms such as period, libido, and vagina. And as you’d expect, the results were entertaining. When asked about what comes to mind when she hears the word “period,” Bush responds with “poverty.” Moving along, Bush shares that when she hears perimenopause she thinks of the word “sweating” and when she hears the word “vagina” she simply says, “awesome.” All of these shek
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Sophia Bush Shares How She Confronted Her Own Mortality After Her ‘Terrifying’ Health Scare
“I wish my younger self understood food as both medicine and pleasure,” Sophia Bush reflects when asked what she wishes she knew about health earlier. “So much of the culture I grew up in was so toxic for women around food and I hated that, so I think I also didn’t learn about the beauty of food. There’s so much extremism in that space and I think when you get passionate about cooking and feeding your friends, and hosting, suddenly shek
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The White House Launched Its First-Ever Initiative on Women’s Health Research
This Thanksgiving, HealthyWomen is grateful to President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council for launching the first-ever Initiative on Women’s Health Research. At HealthyWomen, we know women’s health is more than gynecological or reproductive health. It is the head-to-toe health of all women — who represent more than half of the nation’s population. For far too long, women’s health research has been underfunded and women have been underrepresented in clinical trials. We have made Healthy
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Carla Hall On Feeling ‘Sexty’ As She Heads Into a Milestone Year
Carla Hall is hitting a milestone next year: turning 60, or in her words, “sexty.” Although she’s accomplished more than most in her lifetime — she’s been an actor, a talk show host, a caterer, a model and even an accountant — the chef said she’s hoping to continue to evolve by leaning more into her sexuality. “In this day and age when women are talking more about menopause, with the wisdom and being comfortable with myself comes my femininity shek
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Introducing NYC Teenspace, Free to All New York City Teens
Many teens today are not okay—that’s the bottom line of both government data and the observations of Talkspace therapists. Per the CDC, 42% of high school students reported feeling very sad or hopeless and 22% seriously considered attempting suicide. In a survey of Talkspace providers who work with teens, 63% report that they believe the mental health of high schoolers has gotten worse over the past two years (and only 8% say it has improved). It’s not easy for teens talk
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Alysia Reiner Is Now a Firefighter — Here’s Why She’s Blazing a New Path
Alysia Reiner isn’t someone who grew up dreaming of becoming a firefighter. But she notes that dreams often change, a fact she shares with her teen daughter. “It’s funny having a 14-year-old now because just the other day she told me, ‘I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” And I said ‘You don’t have to know, and it can change.’ That’s the fun thing about life, right? We get to keep on having new, awesome shek
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8 Ways to Stay Healthy This Flu Season
‘Tis the season for fun, festivities … and the flu. We know — whomp, whomp — but the flu is nothing to sneeze at. For some people, the flu can be a serious, life-threatening illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated as many as 670,000 people were hospitalized with the flu between October 2022 and April 2023. And during that time, as many as 98,000 people died from a flu-related illness. Luckily, there are steps you can Healthy