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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The restaurant with the low score is in Knoxville. It serves authentic Vietnamese cuisine. The ...

When I was about 6 years old in the early ‘40s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He ...

I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said ...

I am a 75-year-old man with an elevated A1C level; I was diagnosed with prediabetes. I feel healthy but have struggled to ...

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