Rebecca Grapevine, Healthbeat Atlanta
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People who live near the BioLab chemical plant in Conyers can finally go outside at night, 19 days after a fire fouled the air, the Rockdale County Emergency Management agency announced.
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.As a plume of smoke from a chemical fire hangs over metro Atlanta, amid a state of emergency after deadly Hurricane Helene, and in the wake of a Covid surge that hit…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.As a plume of smoke from a fire at a Conyers chemical plant hangs over metro Atlanta, so do questions about what exactly is burning and the extent of any public heal…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.It’s been over a month since the FDA approved new Covid vaccines, but for uninsured and underinsured Atlantans who rely on the public health system to get the shots …
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.Leanne Woods-Burnham is a top prostate cancer researcher. But being a top researcher doesn’t guarantee your relatives get the best care. Burnham’s husband struggled …
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.An increase in West Nile virus cases in Georgia – from two in August to seven last week – has spurred concern, as county health departments take steps to control mos…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.Can a photograph improve public health? A project in East Point, Georgia, a small city with a population of around 38,000 just south of Atlanta, aims to prove that i…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.Updated Covid vaccines, slated to hit shelves this week, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. The…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. As the United States heads toward a new summer record for Covid cases, rates in Georgia are “very high,” with related deaths and hospitalizations on the rise. The s…
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.You can go home again, it turns out.After graduating from Chamblee High School in 2000, I left Atlanta. My plan was to live a life doing exciting things far away fro…