Blogs & Feature Stories
Understanding the Science of Behavior Change to Improve Heart Health
More than 50% of people struggle to make meaningful, long-term changes to improve their health. However, thanks to years of research, we now know what helps people develop good health habits AND how to help those those changes stick!
Being a Mom with Cancer: Sarah's Story
Sarah Broadus is a strong believer in the power of showing grace. As a mom to four beautiful children ranging in age from kindergarten to senior year and a client manager for ShutterBooth Atlanta, everyday has been a busy, balancing act. But one that got far more complex after the seemingly-healthy 36-year-old was completely blindsided with a diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer.
Dysautonomia Awareness: Living with POTS
Summer Dashe always knew she was destined to be a journalist. Little did she know at the time, how her natural ability for creatively telling stories would one day allow her to educate the public, first as a beloved local news reporter and anchor and later as an advocate for patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Dr. Sarah Bernstein Shines a Light on Why We Should Rethink Our COVID-19 Risk
Sarah Bernstein, MD, MHA, knows what it’s like to be in something for the long haul. Long before the era of COVID-19, when she was a young and healthy 15-year-old, running high school cross-country and track, she came down with a bad case of infectious mononucleosis. Two weeks later, she thought she had recovered, so she went back to running. That’s when her heart began to hurt.
How Age, Health, Profiles, & Our Healthcare System Complicate Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis & Prevention
Colorectal Cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in Americans under age 50. To truly understand why millennials are increasingly impacted by a disease that we have the ability to detect early, we must know what is befalling patients and healthcare providers along the way to a diagnosis and more importantly, in preventing the disease all together.
How to Have a Healthy Retirement with Diabetes
Congratulations, you’ve made it to retirement. Hitting this milestone is both an exciting and nerve-wracking time for anyone, but for people living with diabetes, this new stage of life may hit home differently. Here are the top things to have on your checklist for a healthy retirement with diabetes.
How an Infectious Disease Doctor Is Finding Ways to Decrease COVID's Impact
For Atlanta, the coronavirus pandemic has been a tale of a divided city. While in the public light it followed suit as part of one of the last states to impose stay-at-home orders and one of the first in the nation to begin lifting them. Yet, behind the scenes at one of city's most elite universities, Amy Sherman, a 32-year-old infectious disease fellow has been hard at work. She's part of a team at one of 47 sites nationwide conducting a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study on Remdesivir—an IV-administered, antiviral medication which is a potential treatment for adults hospitalized with COVID-19.
Empowering the Marshallese Community in Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Congratulations, you’ve made it to retirement. Hitting this milestone is both an exciting and nerve-wracking time for anyone, but for people living with diabetes, this new stage of life may hit home differently. Here are the top things to have on your checklist for a healthy retirement with diabetes.
