Health

Bystanders Who Perform CPR Exponentially Increase Survival Rates – One Atlanta Man Knows

WABE

Bystanders Who Perform CPR Exponentially Increase Survival Rates – One Atlanta Man Knows

Ga. Medicaid Program Isn’t Meeting Its Primary Goal: Reducing Low-Birthweight Births

WABE

Ga. Medicaid Program Isn’t Meeting Its Primary Goal: Reducing Low-Birthweight Births

1 Death Confirmed, Linked To Legionnaires’ Outbreak At Sheraton Atlanta Hotel

WABE

1 Death Confirmed, Linked To Legionnaires’ Outbreak At Sheraton Atlanta Hotel

NPR

A Robot Might Take His Job — And That’s Good News

Luisa Torres, Luisa Torres • Aug 2, 2019

On Aug. 2, 2014, an ambulance departs Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta with an Ebola patient. Some of the first Ebola virus patients to be successfully treated in the United States are reuniting five years later with the medical team that treated them at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

AP

Former Ebola Patients To Mark 5 Years Since Treatment In Atlanta

Associated Press • Aug 2, 2019

Gov. Brian Kemp’s office says it is investigating ethylene oxide, which has become a top concern for hundreds of thousands of people who live near Smyrna and Covington. The toxin, linked to cancer, is concentrated around those areas, each home to medical device sterilization plants.

WABE

Smyrna, Covington Residents Pressure Officials On Ethylene Oxide

Jim Burress • Aug 2, 2019

During a meeting Thursday afternoon, many advocates asked tough questions of Atlanta officials about how they administer the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) program.

WABE

Advocates Skeptical Of Atlanta’s Proposed Changes To HIV Housing Program

Sam Whitehead • Aug 1, 2019

“She really changed people’s minds about disabilities and really opened hearts,’’ state Rep. Mary Frances Williams of Marietta said of Dawn Alford, who was a public policy director and lobbyist at the state Capitol for the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Other

Georgia Health News Tribute: Dawn Alford Cleared The Path For Others With Disabilities

Andy Miller, Georgia Health News • Jul 31, 2019

This undated file image shows a large grouping of Legionella pneumophila bacteria (Legionnaires' disease). The Georgia Department of Public Health said that in addition to 11 confirmed Legionnaires’ disease cases linked recently to the Sheraton Atlanta, there are 55 “probable’’ cases.

Other

Georgia Outbreak Of Legionnaires’ Could Reach Historic Level

Andy Miller, Georgia Health News • Jul 30, 2019