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2 weeks ago | 
mississippitoday.org | Allen Siegler
MOUND BAYOU — Less than 10% of adults in the Mississippi Delta went to the dentist in the last year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a statistic the Delta’s U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson used to emphasize the difficulties people in his district face to a crowd of a few dozen people gathered in the Mound Bayou Delta Health Center parking lot late Wednesday morning.
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1 month ago | 
mississippitoday.org | Allen Siegler
DUBLIN — Pregnant with her second child and entering addiction treatment at a Coahoma County residential program in 2019, Katiee Evans worried she had ruined her life beyond repair. The Columbus native had struggled for years with methamphetamine addiction, a disorder that led the state to take custody of her then-7-month-old daughter. Evans didn’t complete treatment after giving birth to her first child, but the prospect of remaining with her newborn motivated her to try it again.
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2 months ago | 
healthbeat.org | Rebecca Grapevine |Mara Silvers |Allen Siegler
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Thousands were laid off Tuesday from the Atlanta-based CDC, dealing a blow to the city’s public health workforce, local, national and global research on illness prevention, and likely the city’s economy. The CDC’s parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, last week announced a sweeping reorganization that would result in about 2,400 “reductions in force” at the CDC.
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2 months ago | 
mdjonline.com | Allen Siegler |Healthbeat Atlanta
Even as one of the most severe Georgia flu seasons in recent years continues to recede, health workers in the metro Atlanta area continue to express caution about respiratory, vaccine-preventable diseases. Throughout March, hospitalizations and health care visits for flu have continued to decline in the state, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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2 months ago | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Chauncey Alcorn |Rebekah Sager |Madeline Thigpen |Allen Siegler
The house that Tyreek Davis is renting in College Park is similar to the kind of home he’d like to buy and can afford. It has four-bedrooms, 2.5-bathrooms, a driveway, garage, washer and dryer — an upgrade from the Union City apartment where he previously lived. But it’s not for sale, and none of the other homes in his subdivision are either.
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2 months ago | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Rebekah Sager |Madeline Thigpen |Allen Siegler |Healthbeat Atlanta
When Shanette Williams speaks publicly, she holds the obituary of her 28-year-old daughter, Amber Nicole Thurman, in her hands. She says it gives her comfort and the strength to continue to tell the story of how a Georgia hospital allowed her daughter to die unnecessarily. Williams is a woman who rarely bows her head, unless in prayer. She is striking with the face of a model, high cheekbones, dark chocolate almond-shaped eyes, and a warm smile.
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2 months ago | 
healthbeat.org | Allen Siegler |Rebecca Grapevine |Mara Silvers
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rescinded over $11 billion intended for state and local public health work across the country, health departments around Atlanta are assessing how they will continue to serve residents. At the Cobb County Board of Health meeting on Thursday, leaders from the Cobb and Douglas Public Health agency shared funding restrictions they are facing for 2025.
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2 months ago | 
healthbeat.org | Rebecca Grapevine |Jess Mador |Allen Siegler |Eliza Fawcett
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Potential cuts to HIV work at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have local and national experts worried that recent progress in cutting HIV rates will come to a halt. If enacted, the cuts could impact the $50 million in CDC funding for HIV work in Georgia, which had the second-highest rate of new cases in 2022, according to the CDC’s most recent data.
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2 months ago | 
the74million.org | Allen Siegler
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Aaliyah Taylor, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, is used to having more responsibilities than a typical teenager. She helped her dad feed and tend to her grandmother until she died in 2023, tasks that frequently stressed her out as she was trying to manage her own health issues, like her scoliosis. “I felt like every 5 seconds I was called for something, even though I just sat back down,” she said.
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2 months ago | 
ajc.com | Allen Siegler
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. While severe respiratory disease cases in Georgia have subsided significantly over the past few months, some early signs indicate the state could soon see a rise in COVID-19 infections. Compared to the previous few winters, Georgia saw a relatively low number of hospitalizations and .
