Health Care

  The United States healthcare system is messed up. It’s a mangled wreck at the bottom of a smoking crater. We spend more, by far, on healthcare than any other country, more than $2.5 trillion annually, about 18 percent of…

  Three decades after a motorcycle accident left him with numerous fractured bones and almost took his life, Wade Norton began to experience knee pain that made it difficult to climb stars or enjoy a game of golf. He learned…

  When you think of pioneers in laparoscopy, robotic surgery or cutting-edge technologies, which Georgia health system comes to mind? When you think of Georgia’s busiest hospital emergency department or operating rooms, what do you think of? If you didn’t…

  When it comes to breast cancer, the bad news is that 8,907 Georgians were diagnosed with the disease last year alone – and the chance of receiving that feared diagnosis has been increasing. In the United States, a woman’s…

  In 2010, an estimated 15,435 Georgians died from cancer; 15,987 died from heart disease; and almost 3,762 died from stroke, one of the highest rates in the United States. These and many other common conditions can be treated early,…

  The most common cause of disability and death among Georgians is heart disease, but its toll is decreasing.  According to a recent study in the journal American Family Physician, just 6 percent of Americans had coronary heart disease in…

  Jennifer Giliberto was searching for a doctor to treat a potentially malignant brain tumor when her search kept leading her to Emory University neurosurgeon Costas Hadjipanayis, M.D., Ph.D.  After meeting with Dr. Hadjipanayis and his team, it didn’t take…

  When Janita Green got her breast cancer diagnosis three years ago, it made absolutely no sense to her. “I didn’t believe it. I was young, active and healthy,” says Green, a CPA for a consulting firm in Atlanta. “I…

  Obesity is a problem of major proportions in Georgia, costing the state $2.1 billion annually either directly or indirectly for diagnostic and treatment services and reduced productivity. But for far too many Georgians, the ultimate cost of excess weight…