Rural hospitals sometimes look for lifelines through consolidation with big city hospitals. Now a couple of rural hospitals in Middle Georgia are trying a grassroots approach emphasizing local ownership. And, they say, it’s working. 

As the number of abortions nationwide grows, pregnant people in states with restrictions and bans are getting pills from out-of-state providers. Some say these providers are breaking the law.

Dr. Theodore Schwartz has been treating neurological illnesses for nearly 30 years. He says being a brain surgeon requires steady hands — and a strong bladder. His new book is Gray Matters.

A new generation of blood tests can help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. But many doctors don’t yet know how to use them.

Metro Atlanta patients on Medicare living with dementia may now access an alternative payment model that aims to increase quality of life, help them remain in their homes for as long as possible, and decrease strain on unpaid caregivers, through a collaboration with Emory Integrated Memory Care and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  

The head of a new commission tasked with recommending improvements to Georgia's Medicaid program says she does not see a single solution for the issues facing low-income and uninsured state residents.

According to the complaint, prison staff were warned that morning about the heat and told not to leave inmates outside too long, or without water.

It's the first to meet new licensure requirements for paramedics that the state Department of Public Health says it intends to issue next year. 

On Thursday, July 11, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock introduced legislation that would temporarily relieve the thousands of Georgians stuck in the Medicaid coverage gap.

Georgia’s abortion law, the so-called “LIFE Act,” allows for abortions after the detection of what the law describes as “fetal heartbeat.” It’s exceptions like these that were at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest hearing on abortion.

The sanctuary specializes in holistic wellness through exercise, massage, stress management and psychotherapy for people living with sickle cell disease.

The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.

This is the second time health care provider Wellpath’s lawsuit has been dismissed. 

According to a recent Pew survey, more than 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

On the Thursday, June 20 edition of Georgia Today: A Georgia town's entire police department has been suspended, new steps are being taken to fight the opioid crisis, and more than 70,000 soccer fans are descending upon Atlanta