WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The American Lung Association issued the following joint statement: * * * - Major National Patient Advocacy Organizations Submit Comments, Run Advertisements Urging CMS to Reject Tennessee Medicaid Waiver Request that Harms Patients with Serious and Chronic Health Conditions * * * Today, 17 patient groups submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asking the agency to reject Tennessee's Section 1115 demonstration waiver changing   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said it will monitor decisions by newly-appointed Tennessee Board of Parole member Mae Beavers for anti-Muslim bias because of her history of Islamophobic statements. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee this week announced the appointment of Beavers to a six-year term on the board. SEE: Ten  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Dec. 26 -- The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology that offers information on mental health topics to psychiatrists and other medical professionals, published research articles, including the following topics, in its November/December 2019 edition: * Brain Imaging in Adolescents and Young Adults With First-Episode Psychosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study * Comparison of Suicide Risk Scales in Predic  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 -- The National Center for Law and Economic Justice issued the following news: On November 20, 2019, Tennessee submitted an application to the federal Center for Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). With its application, Tennessee is requesting that the Secretary of HHS waive certain federal Medicaid requirements that would allow the state to convert its Medicaid managed care program, called TennCare, into a "block grant" program. If a  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Dec. 24 -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital issued the following news release: * * * - Immunologists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed two independent mechanisms driving self-defense molecules to trigger cell death. * * * Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a new way that the molecule RIPK1 leads to cell death in infected, damaged or unwanted cells showing that more than one mechanism can trigger the process. The  more