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News Articles: Health Care

For years, the United States has been considered one of the unsafest places to give birth among developed nations. That remains especially true for Black women during the height of the COVID pandemic. Photo by Getty Images

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  • Health

U.S. News & World Report names two 'best maternity care' hospitals in Georgia

Emory Decatur Hospital and Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center had the top scores statewide using metrics like rates of C-section delivery and severe unexpected newborn complications. 

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Health care advocates are shown protesting care denials at UnitedHealthcare's offices on July 15, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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  • Health Care

Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?

The public outrage unleashed by the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes as populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Donald Trump.

December 15, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
People affiliated with opioid recovery service providers listen in April to the question and answer portion of the Macon informational session around how Georgia's Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust will disburse millions of dollars of settlement funds.

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  • Health

Which Georgia programs will receive money from national opioid lawsuit settlements?

Awards from the state have been announced for the first two years of programs aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Clockwise, from top left: Laura Forer, Michelle Allette, Domenique Rice, Jen Loga, Dr. Patty Ng and Marise Angibeau-Gray

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  • Health

Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth

Through her work, photographer Nancy Borowick says she hopes to draw awareness to women's stories, educate Americans and destigmatize the conversation that occurs between doctors and patients.

December 11, 2024
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By:
  • Nancy Borowick
The Children's Hospital currently serves about 65,000 children each year.

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  • Health

Most Georgia hospitals fail to comply with federal price listing rule until fined

Only 21 of 51 (41%) Georgia hospitals reviewed were fully complying with the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule, according to a new report.

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A view outside the UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters on Dec. 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City this week triggered an outpouring of venting about the health care system on social media.

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  • Health

After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance

The death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was under scrutiny for its plans to impose time limits on anesthesia coverage.

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  • Health Care

Anthem reverses plans to put time limits on anesthesia coverage

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was under scrutiny for planning to put time limits on anesthesia care. On Thursday, the large health insurer said it had decided not to proceed with the policy change.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Nurses caring for patients at Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul on September 1, 2021. Since assuming power that year, the Taliban has curtailed educational opportunities for women. This week they reportedly banned women from studying nursing and midwivery.

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  • Global Health

Afghan women reportedly barred from studying nursing and midwivery

Several sources confirm the Taliban pronouncement, part of ongoing efforts to curtail education for girls and women. Women studying these subjects say they were barred from classes this week.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
Christopher Ervin, Maisa Standifer and Folashade Omole stand in front of the I Am MSM sign at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta

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  • Health Care

World AIDS Day: Why community researchers and advocates want to reach Black women

Almost half of new HIV infections in the United States are reported in the South, and more than 66,000 Georgians are living with the virus that causes AIDS, many of whom do not have access to health care.

December 01, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A health care worker sits at a laptop

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  • Health Care

Medicare recipients will lose access to some telehealth providers at the end of the year

One of the permanent changes for Medicare patients is the ability to receive telehealth services for behavioral/mental health care in their home.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A graphic of lungs affected by cancer

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  • Health Care

Report: Georgia policymakers must increase access to early screening for lung cancer to save lives

The report also presents opportunities for Georgia to further improve survival by increasing access to lung cancer screening, which can detect the disease at an earlier stage when it's more curable, and biomarker testing, which can help influence treatment options because not all lung cancers are the same.

November 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The emergency room at Piedmont Macon Medical Center.

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  • Health Care

A brief look at updated hospital safety grades in Georgia

Leapfrog Group, the health care watchdog nonprofit, uses responses from a voluntary survey and other data collected by federal agencies to grade hospitals on safety.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2023, by the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

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  • Health Care

What Trump's win could mean for transgender health care access, athletes

President-elect Donald Trump promised to limit transgender health care access and ban trans athletes from school sports. We asked two experts what that would mean for trans people in the U.S.

November 16, 2024
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Mansee Khurana
Medicare could see changes under the Trump administration, including a shift toward Medicare Advantage.

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  • Health

Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare

The former president's pending return to the White House could alter the very nature of Medicare, the nearly 60-year-old federal health care program.

November 07, 2024
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By:
  • Stephanie Armour
People gather in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022, to protest to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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  • Health

Abortions in Georgia dipped last year, evidence of a changing landscape of reproductive care

It’s the first decline the state has seen in procedures since 2017, according to final data from the Georgia Department of Public Health. 

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
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