7 tips to stay healthy this holiday season By Christy Rosell It’s that celebratory time of year again, complete with bright lights, festive events, family gatherings, hot chocolate, stress, and sniffing, sneezing and wheezing. While getting sick isn’t guaranteed, it’s a pretty good bet. “The average person gets at least one to two viral infections […]
After beating pancreatic cancer, Elise Tedeschi helps promote research to fight the disease. By Haisten Willis There are few medical diagnoses more devastating than that of pancreatic cancer. With a five-year survival rate of less than five percent (according to the American Cancer Society), it is one of the deadliest forms of the dreaded disease. […]
By Cory Sekine-Pettite Healthcare is one of the most hotly debated topics in our national conversation. No matter where one falls on this issue politically, we all can agree on at least this fact: For those Americans currently receiving Medicaid benefits, it can be difficult to get all of the medical care they require without […]
Local experts separate fact from fiction. By Christy Rosell It’s only spring and the number of U.S. measles cases surpassed 2018 records in the first three months of the year. A disease that was considered eliminated in the United States for about two decades has now been confirmed in 15 states, including Georgia. “Measles can […]
The female leaders at metro Atlanta’s leading hospitals By Cory Sekine-Pettite *Editor’s note: some answers may have been edited for length or clarity. Climbing the corporate ladder is challenging in any profession, but is especially difficult for women, who hold 52 percent of all professional-level jobs in America, but are poorly represented at highest levels […]
Programs aim to curb smoking and second-hand smoke exposure. By Cory Sekine-Pettite The statistics are shocking: Every year in the United States, more than 480,000 people die from disease caused by tobacco product use. To put it into perspective, that’s more than half of the population of Cobb County. Additionally, every day in America, approximately […]