Sponsored
Wellbeing Q&A 2020
Atlanta doctors from a range of specialties share how best to take care of yourself and maintain your health—both physically and mentally.Q: What is a living-donor liver transplant and how does it work?A: Emory...
Man’s best lab partner
A pit bull named Petey is romping around twenty months after undergoing an investigational brain tumor treatment—developed at Emory University in conjunction with the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
CDC director helps save choking woman
If you're going to choke on your dinner, you should definitely do it in the company of doctors and the head of the CDC.
Free BMI screenings in Atlanta
Regretting all that eggnog and all those holiday cookies? Before you join the gym or invest in a salad spinner, the city of Atlanta is offering free BMI testing to see what kind of shape you're really in.
Doctors over-drugging older adults
A study of more than 6 million seniors in the U.S. found that 21 percent are prescribed at least one "high risk" medication. These prescriptions are a lot more common in the South, among women, and in poorer areas.
Morehouse research to-go
Morehouse School of Medicine recently unveiled what they say is the state's first mobile high-tech research unit equipped for research, prevention, and services. Using it, they can go to rural areas and let people take part in research trials, such as diabetes and stroke prevention studies.
Crowdsourcing helps local boy with health issues
When Cason Griffith had severe eczema as an infant, his pediatrician said hopefully he'd outgrow it. But more than four years later, the Lawrenceville preschooler has continued to have skin issues so serious that they make him absolutely miserable.
On the lookout for measles in Georgia
The measles are making a resurgence. The CDC reports 159 documented cases across the country as of Friday. So far, there haven't been any cases in Georgia, reports the state department of public health.
Preaching the gospel of Muscle Activation Techniques
The man was in a wheelchair, his shoulders hunched and his wrists twisted from a muscular disability, as Jason Colleran worked on him, pressing his fingers onto the man’s muscle attachment tissues in the hopes of elongating them and helping the muscles to contract.
NEWSLETTERS
