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News Articles: Health

The first Alzheimer's blood test cleared by the Food And Drug Administration is set to make diagnosis more accessible and accurate — and change the way doctors treat the disease.

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  • Science

First FDA-cleared Alzheimer's blood test could make diagnoses faster, more accurate

The first Alzheimer's blood test cleared by the Food And Drug Administration is poised to change the way doctors diagnose and treat the disease.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Adriana Smith and her son

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  • Health

In the case of a pregnant and brain-dead patient at Emory, answers are not clear cut

The ethical and legal concerns raised over the treatment of Atlanta’s Adriana Smith are representative of experiences in a post-Roe America, some say. 

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 20 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

'Which is it?' RFK Jr. waffles on cuts to lead poisoning prevention efforts

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions from senators about a lead poisoning crisis in public schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Alton Fry, a Franklin County man who is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, makes too much money for Medicaid but too little to afford coverage through the marketplace. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Advocates warn that proposed Medicaid cuts threaten Georgia’s safety net programs

Advocates are bracing for potential cuts to Georgia’s safety net programs under the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” moving through Congress, though it remains to be seen what changes to programs like Medicaid will end up in the final version. 

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Nolin and
  • Georgia Recorder
The FDA is warning people not to sell, serve or eat cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales between April 29 and May 19.

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  • Food

A salmonella outbreak sickens dozens, prompting a cucumber recall. Here's what to do

The FDA says 26 people, nine of whom were hospitalized, have gotten sick across 15 states. It is still figuring out where the cucumbers were distributed — and warning people to take extra precautions.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19. After the pandemic treaty was approved, he said, "The world is safer today thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of our Member States to adopt the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement."

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  • Global Health

The world now has its first ever pandemic treaty. Will it make a difference?

At the World Health Assembly, 193 members nations voted to adopt a treat calling for better preventive measures and global cooperation. But there are still details to hash out.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
People participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the main offices of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on March 28, days before thousands of CDC employees were laid off.

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  • Investigations

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new approach to evaluating and approving COVID vaccines.

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  • Health

A stricter FDA policy for COVID vaccines could limit future access

Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get immunized.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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  • Health

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to updated COVID shots, saying they'd continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press
This historic image depicts one of the former Malaria Control in War Areas field station buildings in Newton, Georgia. (Courtesy of CDC)

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  • Health

Why is the CDC located in Atlanta and not D.C.? History tied to Coca-Cola and mosquitoes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deep roots in Atlanta and plays an important role in making the city a public health center. 

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
Demonstrators calling for preservation of Medicaid funding, are removed from the House Energy and Commerce markup of the budget resolution in Rayburn building on May 13.

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  • Health

New studies show what's at stake if Medicaid is scaled back

Researchers studied the health care program's effect on the health of millions of Americans and found tens of thousands of lives were saved.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Leslie Walker
Cartoonist Scott Adams, pictured in 2014, said Monday he has metastatic prostate cancer and does not expect to survive the summer.

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  • Art & Design

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he's dying of 'the same cancer that Joe Biden has'

Adams said he expects "to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer." The controversial cartoonist, a vocal supporter of President Trump, expressed compassion for former President Biden.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
How Fears Over the Measles Vaccine Took Hold: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • Children's Health

Ga. DPH reports 4th measles case in 2025 in an 'unvaccinated Greater Atlanta resident'

An unvaccinated person in the Greater Atlanta area contracted measles while traveling outside of the country, and the state health department is tracing contacts who may have been exposed between May 10 and 18.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Some patients experience pain or discomfort with the insertion of an IUD for contraception. New guidelines urge doctors to offer pain treatment.

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  • Health

Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures

A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Boden
President Trump takes questions from reporters at an event in the Oval Office on May 19, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump suggests without evidence that Biden delayed sharing his cancer diagnosis

President Trump was gracious on Sunday when former President Joe Biden announced his cancer diagnosis. But on Monday, Trump quickly pivoted to allege, without evidence, that there had been a cover-up.

May 19, 2025
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