Blogs & Feature Stories

Changing Behavior to Improve Heart Health

Many of us struggle to make meaningful, long-term changes to improve our health. Now research reveals effective health heart habits AND ways to ensure changes stick!

Being a Mom with Cancer: Sarah's Story

Sarah Broadus always believed in the power of showing grace, never imagining she would need it for herself as a mother of four fighting 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.

Med Diet May Hold Key to Heart Health

A landmark study finds the Mediterranean diet can help prevent ~30% of heart attacks, strokes, and deaths from heart disease in people at risk compared to eating a low-fat diet.

Rethinking COVID-19 Risk: Dr. Sarah Bernstein Explains

There’s a gap between people at higher risk for severe COVID-19 and those who realize they are and need extra precautions. Dr. Bernstein shares her personal story

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.

Having a Healthy Retirement with Diabetes

Congratulations, you’ve retired. For those living with diabetes, this stage of life may hit home differently. Here’s a checklist for a healthy retirement with diabetes.

Racing to Find a Treatment

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.