Medical

The IV in my right arm pumped in liters of needed fluid, along with some Toradol anti-inflammatory medication, while a nasal cannula provided a steady stream of cool oxygen. This was a Sunday morning, after a nine-mile run from Decatur to Buckhead left me particularly tomato-faced, parched and pouring with sweat.Though I’ve found myself in a similar predicament before, this time I wasn’t sick and sitting in urgent care.I had elected to visit Hydration Station, a new business in Buckhead that offers intravenous fluids to the over-exerted, the stomach-bugged and the hungover.

Georgia scored an "F" on its reporting of health care costs, according to a report released this week. We're one of 29 states that flunked on the health care price transparency report from the Catalyst for Payment Reform, a nonprofit group that works to improve how businesses and individuals pay for health care.

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.

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.

Although it's not as bad here as one-third of the country, the number of drug overdose deaths in Georgia has tripled since 1999. The majority of those deaths was from prescription drugs.

Jeremy had gone hunting, so two days after Christmas, Brandy Green rose late to make breakfast alone. She and Jeremy lived in a small, white-brick ranch house near Brandy’s parents in Ellijay. Together six years, married three, they were having trouble getting pregnant and Brandy had started fertility treatments. She thought about this as the coffee brewed.

It’s doing surgery as though you were immersed inside the patient. It’s as if the patient was wide open. You can be a few feet away, but you’re right on top of the pathology and you can see precisely what you’re cutting.

Researchers at Georgia Tech and the Shepherd Center create technology that allow people to control wheelchairs with their tongue, and an awesome tongue piercing.

I was standing in front of a stranger in my underwear and had one question: “What if I open my mouth and eat it?”Angela gave me a quizzical smile, perhaps wondering if she’d misheard me because of the Hoover-like hum of her spray-tan pump and the fans buzzing on the back wall.I was at RAW Organic Bronzing Studio in Inman Park, a salon — founded by a cancer survivor — that offers a 100% natural spray tan.