UGA, schools and the Athens-Clarke County government have become leaders in promoting sustainability. Read the full article: Athens Banner-Herald
Month: April 2012
Dougherty: Teen births dip
Teen births in Dougherty County declined by about 25 percent from 1994 to 2004. Read the full article: Albany Herald
Newnan: Moving patients
A medical team practices moving patients safely from the existing Piedmont Newnan Hospital to the new facility. Read the full article: Newnan Times-Herald
Whitfield: Pot crackdown
Law enforcement officials are trying to nab sellers of synthetic marijuana attempting to elude a new ban. Read the full article: Dalton Daily Citizen
How doctors, patients do harm
Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society talks about the broken health system.
Macon: Mercer center
Mercer University plans to establish a Health Sciences Center, a multi-campus academic health center. Read the full article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Rome: Need for blood
Blood Assurance’s CEO asks local residents to consider donating blood. Read the full article: Rome News-Tribune
Carters urge Obama to act on mental health law
The Obama administration should finalize regulations and implement the law on mental health benefits parity passed four years ago, former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter told an assembly of health journalists in Atlanta on Thursday. The law requires health insurers to cover both mental and physical health equally, with the same…
How Ga. lured Baxter plant
A workforce training program and the potential for $78 million in incentives helped convince Baxter to pick metro Atlanta for a manufacturing plant. Read the full article: ajc.com
Grovetown: Medicaid change
Therapy centers report that Medicaid services for special-needs children have been cut – or in some cases denied. Read the full article: Augusta Chronicle