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Dr. Carole Myers and State Senator Richard Briggs discuss key health issues in Tennessee, ahead of the 2026 Tennessee Legislative Session. This episode is part 2, of a two-part discussion.

On HealthConnections. Dr Carole Myers and Michael Holtz, from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, talk about the incidence of early onset cancers in women under 50.

Dr Carole Myers speaks with nurse midwife Jill Alliman to discuss maternal mortality rates, of which Tennessee has some of the highest in the United States.

Dr Carole Myers welcomes Michael Holtz, a cancer survivor advocate, back to WUOT's HealthConnections to discuss the rising number of cancers among young adults.

HealthConnections is the show about people health and policy. I'm Dr Carole Myers. Late in 2025 Tennessee was awarded a federal Rural Health Transformation Grant. Today, I'm joined by Dr Matt Harris.

On this episode of HealthConnections, I'm Dr Carole Myers discusses homelessness with Erin Read, who is the Director of the Knoxville, Knox County Office on Housing Stability.

On HealthConnections, Dr. Carole Myers is joined by Dr. Phoebe Tran, an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee Department of Public Health, to discuss cardiac rehabilitation.

On this edition of Health Connections, Dr. Carole Myers talks with Dr. Sarah Neller of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, to discuss social connections.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding America initiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.