Jess Mador
Health Reporter at WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA)
Health Reporter on Signal @WABENews. @AHCJ fellow. Contributor @InAppalachia @Appalachia100. Previous: @GPBnews, @WYSO, @AIRmedia #Localore @WUOTFM, @MPRnews
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2 weeks ago |
npr.org | Jess Mador
By the time she ended up at a Georgia hospital with emergency complications, 30-year-old Atlanta nurse Adriana Smith was almost nine weeks pregnant. Her condition, which included multiple blood clots, deteriorated as doctors tried to save her life, Smith's mother April Newkirk told Atlanta TV station WXIA. "They did a CT scan and she had blood clots all in her head. So they had asked me if they could do a procedure to relieve them, and I said yes," Newkirk said.
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3 weeks ago |
npr.org | Jess Mador
Controversy is growing in Georgia over the case of a woman declared brain dead who is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. Hospital officials say it's because of Georgia's abortion law.
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1 month ago |
wabe.org | Jess Mador
Atlanta women’s health providers and abortion-rights advocates are speaking out against Georgia’s six-week abortion law as an Emory University Hospital patient recently declared “brain dead” remains on life support to sustain her pregnancy. State law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity in an embryo. There are medical exceptions allowed under the ban, including for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.
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1 month ago |
wabe.org | Jess Mador
At her small, subsidized apartment west of downtown Atlanta, Valarie White rests on the couch. Her arthritis makes it difficult for her to do the things she used to do for herself. The 60-year old says she’d be lost without her sister’s help at home. “Because now, with this arthritis, it’s hard to open up my medicine bottles. She fixes my medicines up for me because my hand is not working right right now,” White says.
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1 month ago |
wabe.org | Jess Mador
Military veterans and healthcare providers say proposed federal cuts to the Veterans Affairs health system would delay care for Atlanta veterans. The Trump administration has announced plans to terminate more than 80,000 VA employees nationwide. Administration officials have said the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts would reduce the United States VA workforce by around 15% to 2019 employment levels without cutting health care or benefits.
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