For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: A two-year quest for medical cannabis in Georgia has a successful end in sight. The state Senate passed legislation Tuesday to allow the use of medical marijuana for eight health conditions, after rejecting amendments that would have… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: The fight over autism treatment coverage continued in a House committee hearing Monday, pitting organizations concerned about costs against those advocating for the most effective services for children. read more
Darlington’s Seventh Annual Light the Lake event, around Silver Lake on the Rome campus, is set for Friday and nice again will “honor and memory of loved ones affected by cancer. Proceeds raised by the event will be split between local non-profit organizations Cancer Navigators and Summit Quest.“ read more
Media release: Gordon EMS, a service of Gordon Hospital, was named the Georgia Region I EMS Service of the Year during the 2015 Northwest Georgia EMS Awards Banquet held March 12 at Wellstar Paulding Hospital in Hiram. Gordon EMS has earned this title twice in three years. read more
Dr. Leonard Reeves, assistant dean of the Northwest Georgia campus of Georgia Regents University/The Medical College of Georgia, now offers a series of quick medical tips via video and YouTube. You can “subscribe” to the updates by clicking here. We’ll also continue to feature one or two videos as they become available from Reeves, the… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Georgia’s medical marijuana proposal took what its chief sponsor called “a giant leap’’ forward Thursday by passing a Senate committee after a long, emotional hearing. read more
Monday on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, WRGA 98.7 FM: Lisa Stone, health promotions coordinator for Public Health, will discuss Georgia’s 100% Tobacco-Free School policy. Media release: More than half - 101 out of 181 - Georgia school districts are now tobacco-free. Emanuel County Schools, Lowndes County Schools and Jenkins County Schools all recently implemented Georgia’s 100% Tobacco-Free… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: A state Senate panel gave Georgia primary care doctors a potential financial boost Wednesday, putting millions of dollars into the state budget for a pay raise to deliver services to Medicaid patients. read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Premiums in Georgia’s insurance exchange showed only a slight increase in 2015, as compared with the South overall and the nation as a whole, according to a new analysis released Tuesday. read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Chris Hooper and his startup firm, Emergence, are betting on the boom in health information technology. Launched last year as an “accelerator,’’ Emergence will take fledgling health IT companies and get them ready to pitch investors for… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News Bruce Thompson has a personal stake in the topic of secondhand smoke. Thompson, a Republican state senator from White, says he has suffered from asthma since childhood. His mother was a smoker, he says, and secondhand smoke… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Ansley Stewart, Georgia Health News Sally Boswell is the first person many low-income families in Greene County call when their child gets sick. She hears about everything from acute ear infections to chronic conditions such as diabetes. Boswell helps parents, grandparents or guardians… Read more
Media release: Kurt Stuenkel, Floyd President and CEO, announced today that Wade Monk, General Counsel, will retire later this fall, and that Tommy Manning is joining Floyd’s legal department on April 1. “Wade has been our trusted legal counsel for 30 years now,” Stuenkel said. “He joined Floyd as a full-time employee in 2002. We… Read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller for Georgia Health News Emory University announced Wednesday that Michael J. Mandl will take over as president and CEO of the university’s health care operations. read more
For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News State insurance officials are investigating whether health insurers are covering tobacco-cessation products as a free benefit, as required under the Affordable Care Act. read more