Giving low-income people in Georgia “prescriptions” for fruits and vegetables not only helped them incorporate more healthy foods into their menus but it also helped improve their health, a recent study found. Many of those folks found their medicine at the Veggie Park Farmers Market in Augusta. Read the full article: Augusta Chronicle
Dr. Lee Kneer, a sports medicine specialist at the Emory Clinic, often is the first person a child sees after a sports injury and is charged with acute pain management. Read the full article: Newnan Times-Herald
ProPublica and NPR are examining the bewildering, sometimes enraging ways the health insurance industry works by taking an inside look at the games, deals and incentives that often result in higher costs, delays in care, or denials of treatment.
Doris Jones’ lawsuit, being heard this week, is the latest of hundreds of thousands involving medical devices blamed for sickening or killing patients, cases that point to a weak federal oversight system for some sensitive devices. Read the full article: ajc.com
Some health stories from Georgia are not particularly big or particularly new. But that doesn’t mean they’re not interesting. Here are a few things we think are worth noting, with illustrations to help you remember them. The founder with a big heart: James Oglethorpe’s concern for public health was one reason he founded the colony of…
Warner Robins football player CJ Harris hoped to fulfill a dream that had been threatened by seizures when Auburn gave him a preferred walk-on opportunity in February. But three months later, the medication that brought Harris’ life back to normal will now keep him from playing for the Tigers. Read the full article: Macon Telegraph
A Georgia woman has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and synthetic opioids that carry a higher risk of overdose. Read the full article: Associated Press
Lauren McShane already had a master’s degree in public health, but wanted to branch out into the clinical side of health care. She considered going to medical school. Another possibility was becoming a physical therapist. But what she chose was taking up assistant programs at a physician assistant school. Her decision, she said, was based on…
Dunwoody’s city council voted unanimously earlier this week to ask the state to let it provide its own EMS. “It is a disaster,” said Terry Nall, a Dunwoody city council member. Read the full article: WABE
Dr. Joseph L. Burton, a former county medical examiner and forensic pathologist, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally distribute opioid painkillers in exchange for sexual favors. Read the full article: Rome News-Tribune