Healthy Living

The Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness announced that the Gatlinburg Recreation Department has been named a 2015 Healthier Tennessee Workplace for its commitment to encouraging and enabling employees to live a healthy lifestyle both at work and at home. “Gatlinburg Recreation Department has created a culture of wellness that encourages and enables employees to be healthier, more productive, and ...

MARCH 3, 2015 UPDATE: The LeConte Medical Center Community Health Fair has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 12, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. due to winter weather. A health fair in Pigeon Forge will offer free health screenings and educational information, as well as reduced-price blood screenings. LeConte Medical Center invites the public to “Spring into Good Health” by attending a community ...

Certain packages of Nutrisca dog food are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. Tuffy’s Pet Foods, Inc. has announced a voluntary dog food recall of certain lots of Nutrisca Chicken and Chick Pea Recipe Dry Dog Food in 4 lb. bags after routine testing by the Ohio Department of Agriculture found the bacteria Salmonella in a sample. ...

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam this evening addressed a joint convention of the 109th General Assembly as legislators began an extraordinary legislative session to consider his Insure Tennessee plan. The proposal, a two-year pilot program to provide market-based health care coverage to more than 250,000 Tennesseans who currently don’t have access to health insurance or have limited options, does ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park geographic information system specialists and scientists in collaboration with scientists from Tennessee, North Carolina and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), completed a three-year stream mapping project. Park scientists used a combination of aircraft-mounted scanners and a Global Positioning System verification system to re-inventory streams throughout the park. Using this modern mapping technology, scientists determined ...

Local business Tanger Outlets Sevierville hosted the Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center van Thursday to provide free mammograms. The mammograms were offered to 10 uninsured, at risk women from Sevier County. Tanger Outlets partnered with Relay For Life of Sevier County and Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic for the event as a continuation of the Pink STYLE Campaign. Relay For Life ...

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Health is urging all Tennesseans to increase their efforts to prevent flu and flu-related health threats by getting immunized and talking with their healthcare providers about flu-like symptoms. Since 2007 there have been 29 pediatric flu-related deaths recorded in Tennessee, including three in December 2014. That is the highest number of pediatric flu deaths ...

Health officials are alerting parents of potential risks associated with medically unnecessary use of fetal ultrasound imaging and heartbeat monitors. In a consumer update earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised parents to avoid unnecessary fetal ultrasound “keepsake” images, videos and heartbeat monitors during pregnancy because the long-term effects to the fetus are unknown. Ultrasound is ...

If you and your family have not received your flu vaccine, there is still time to protect yourself from a flu season Tennessee health officials say could be severe. The Tennessee Department of Health said Friday that the agency is seeing a steady increase in influenza activity across the state. “Early indications suggest this could be a more severe flu ...

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today unveiled his Insure Tennessee plan, a two-year pilot program to provide health care coverage to Tennesseans who currently don’t have access to health insurance or have limited options. The program rewards healthy behaviors, prepares members to transition to private coverage, promotes personal responsibility and incentivizes choosing preventative and routine care instead of unnecessary ...