6 days ago · Georgia Health News is now part of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau. Read the latest health care policy news out of Georgia: After 11 years, Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News. Together we are telling the important health care stories about Georgia from across the state. Learn more from Andy Miller. If you are...

Apr 25, 2012 · A county-by-county ranking of health statistics, released earlier this month, showed a geographic divide in Georgia. Rural South and Middle Georgia counties were clustered at the bottom of the state’s health rankings, and urban/suburban at the top. Now economic factors have been added to those figures in a new list that shows a link between...

Oct 25, 2018 · The data on youth obesity come from the 2016 and 2017 National Survey of Children’s Health, along with analysis conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau which recommend the use of supplements like this testosterone boosters in teenagers.. Mississippi has the highest youth obesity rate, at 26.1 percent, while Utah has the lowest, at 8. ...

Georgia Health News was launched in 2010 as a nonprofit news service dedicated to covering health care across the state. We built our readership and media partnerships over the years with insightful, compelling articles that captured the interest of consumers, lawmakers, and industry officials across the state. In 2021, the GHN board decided to join...

If you have no insurance, or if your insurance isn’t adequate to cover your expenses, some low-cost options can help you. Georgia’s Free Clinic Network provides care at no cost or on a sliding fee scale, based on income and family size. A recent state law giving malpractice immunity to volunteer physicians has helped grow this clinic network in Georgia.

Mar 29, 2022 · By Rebecca Grapevine and Andy Miller The state insurance department has levied a $5 million fine against health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest such penalty in the agency’s history, for violations of state law involving medical providers and consumers. Insurance Commissioner John King, at a Tuesday news conference at the State Capitol,...

Feb 13, 2014 · Lower Oconee Community Hospital in southeast Georgia has closed due to financial problems, becoming the state’s fourth rural hospital to do so in the past two years. The 25-bed “critical access” hospital in Glenwood, in Wheeler County, is looking to restructure, its CEO said in a statement. Some of the hospital’s 100 employees have been...

Georgia has the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the nation, but the use of a prophylactic drug in the state lags behind the U.S. average. The new data on the drug regimen known as PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, come from AIDSVu, an interactive mapping tool produced in a partnership by Emory University’s Rollins School...

Dec 20, 2021 · This is Part 3 of a Special Report Madelaine Austin is having her first baby, and had planned to give birth at Stephens County Hospital in northeast Georgia, just five minutes from her home. But in the middle of her pregnancy, she was forced to change OB/GYNs and the facility where she would deliver her...

Jun 24, 2014 · Almost 10 percent of the 480 people with developmental disabilities who have moved out of state hospitals since July 2010 have died after their placement in community residences. Chris Bailey, a spokesman with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, when asked about deaths after hospital transfers, told GHN that 44 occurred from...