Children’s Hospital at Erlanger is honoring victims of child abuse with blue pinwheels at the Kennedy Outpatient Center during Child Abuse Prevention Month. Every April, Children’s Hospital and other organizations across the nation install pinwheel gardens to raise awareness of the prevalence of child abuse. Each pinwheel represents a child abuse case treated at Children’s Hospital ... (click for more)

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)

Georgia state health officials said Wednesday evening that another seven people have died from the coronavirus since Wednesday morning, bringing the total to 369. The confirmed cases are now over 10,000, at 10,189, up from 9,156 on Tuesday. Officials said 2,082 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus - up from 1,899 on Tuesday. Whitfield County remains ... (click for more)

Kathy Lennon, County School Board member from Signal Mountain, on Thursday morning withdrew her name from the upcoming election. That leaves Marco Perez as the only candidate for the District 2 post. Mr. Perez, of Signal Mountain, is a business coach. He is CEO of Relife Strategies and previously was vice president of operations for Launch Chattanooga. He is also the co-owner ... (click for more)

I didn’t sleep well last night. It was one of those times when this old boxing coach was in a 10-round boxing match in my spirit. So many people are hurting right now. I have friends that have lost their jobs and are struggling to feed their families. My 11-year-old grandson tells me, “Pops I want to go to school.” I miss Sunday morning worship with my pastor and church family. ... (click for more)

At the massive Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hospital on Sunday the night-shift emergency room nurses came in, went to the break room, and staged a “sit in.” This wasn’t about pay; it was about mismanagement. After four hours of bantering back and forth, the sit-in nurses were told “either get to work or get out!” The nurses got out. And why? “We had two nurses the other ... (click for more)