Senator Marsha Blackburn is urging the Food and Drug Administration to address shortages of drugs used to treat patients with lupus. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, which are used to treat autoimmune diseases like lupus, are currently being used as treatment for COVID-19. “We should not be facing a choice between treating lupus and COVID-19,” said Senator Blackburn. “We ... (click for more)

Rock Steady Boxing, an exercise program based on training used by boxing pros and adapted to people with Parkinson’s disease, will now be available in the north Georgia area. The program involves regular exercises, such as stretching, bicycling, running, jump-roping, push-ups, balancing and lots of non-contact boxing led by experienced trainers/coaches. Rock Steady Boxing serves ... (click for more)

Hamilton County has gone from four to eight coronavirus victims, officials at the Hamilton County Health Department said. A ninth person died in a Chattanooga hospital, but was from an area county. One of the deaths was a child under five. There have been 71 coronavirus cases within Hamilton County thus far. The Tennessee toll from the conoravirus has reached 44 - up one from ... (click for more)

Georgia state health officials said Sunday that 219 people in the state have died of the coronavirus - 11 more than reported on Saturday. The cases have risen to 6,742 - up from the Saturday report of 6,383. Officials said 1,296 have been hospitalized from the deadly new strain of virus. Whitfield County remains at 16 cases with one death. Walker County, which long ... (click for more)

As a young boy, by the time I woke up every morning during the week my dad had already left for work. I would wake up before daylight some days but could never catch him before he left. He was a newspaper man, a reporter for the Chattanooga Free Press. On occasion I would get to visit him in the old Free Press building in downtown Chattanooga. I remember the massive elevator ... (click for more)

The weather yesterday was so gorgeous and the world around me so quiet that I spent a good deal of the day on my outside porch, watching my herd of squirrels try to out-think the new squirrel-proof bird feeder, and praying more than once about this week ahead. Our Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, speaking on “Meet The Press,” had the most ominous prediction of the day when said ... (click for more)