Jess Mador

1 month 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.

1 month ago | kffhealthnews.org | Jess Mador

En un soleado día de semana en Atlanta, un pequeño grupo de personas se reunió para realizar una manifestación frente a la sede de un sindicato. Al evento, organizado por Nikema Williams, representante demócrata en el Congreso nacional, asistieron miembros del sindicato y también trabajadores federales recientemente despedidos, entre ellos Ryan Sloane. “Me despidieron a través de un correo electrónico anónimo a las 9 pm en pleno fin de semana festivo”, declaró.

1 month ago | wabe.org | Jess Mador

Around two months into Avery Davis Bell’s pregnancy with her second son last year, she started bleeding. “We remained optimistic,” she said. But over the coming weeks, Bell’s bleeding worsened. Eventually, doctors gave her an iron infusion and ordered bed rest. But her condition continued to deteriorate. Then, at around 18 weeks pregnant, Bell said she felt a sharp pain. “And I passed a clot the size of a dinner plate.

1 month ago | timesfreepress.com | Jess Mador

On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside a labor union headquarters building. The event, put together by Atlanta-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, was attended mostly by union members and recently fired federal workers, including Ryan Sloane. "I was fired by an anonymous email at 9 p.m. in the middle of a holiday weekend," he said. Sloane is still seeking reinstatement, but he feels he no longer has much to lose by speaking out.

1 month ago | wabe.org | Jess Mador |Patrick Saunders

On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building. The event, put together by Atlanta-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, was attended mostly by union members and recently fired federal workers, including Ryan Sloane. “I was fired by an anonymous email at 9 p.m. in the middle of a holiday weekend,” he said. Sloane is still seeking reinstatement, but he feels he no longer has much to lose by speaking out.