By Mike Killeen, VP of Marketing for Lenz, Atlanta’s Healthcare Marketing Experts Healthcare decisions are the most personal and significant we make Every business benefits from a strong brand, but in healthcare it is an imperative. Why? Because healthcare decisions are the most personal and significant we make. These kinds of decisions require enormous amounts of ... Continue Reading
Archives for December 2016
Opioid Epidemic: Crafting and Effective Health Response
The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University along with the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at the NYU Meyers College of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Arkansas, recently hosted the Opioid Epidemic: Crafting and Effective Public Health Response, at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta. The conference drew a diverse group of ... Continue Reading
Georgia’s First Robotic-Assisted Full Replacement Surgery a Success
Total-joint specialists at Northside Hospital Forsyth are combining the strengths to help patients, especially those with post-sports related injuries and osteoarthritis, return to a better quality of life much faster. They recently performed Georgia’s first robotic-assisted total knee replacement surgery. “This is a great example of how technological advances, coupled ... Continue Reading
America’s Health Ranking Annual Report Show Georgia as 41st
According to America’s Health Rankings® Annual Report Georgia ranks 41st in the nation for health. The report ranks each state across 34 measures of behaviors, community and environment, policy, clinical care, and outcomes. Hawaii ranks as the healthiest state for the fifth straight year. The state has held the top spot eight times in the 27-year history of the Annual ... Continue Reading
Regenerative Medicine
Does regenerative medicine hold the keys to rebuilding damaged organs, tissue and muscle? Atlanta Medicine recently spoke with some Atlanta area researchers about the promise regenerative medicine holds for the future of medicine. According to Arshed A. Quyyumi, M.D., a professor of medicine in Emory University School of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology, stem cell therapy ... Continue Reading
HPV Vaccination: Cancer Protection in a Syringe
By Sandra Adams Fryhofer M.D., MACP, FRCP
By Sandra Adams Fryhofer M.D., MACP, FRCP On Feb 1, 2016, President Obama announced "Moonshot," a new billion-dollar national initiative "to eliminate cancer as we know it." In his announcement, the President predicted 1.6 million new cancer cases and 600,000 deaths in the United States in 2016. He discussed recent advances in cancer treatment, including using immunotherapy ... Continue Reading
Piedmont Receives Certificate of Need for Patient Tower
The Georgia Department of Community Health has granted Piedmont Atlanta Hospital a Certificate of Need (CON) for a new 16-story patient tower. Located on the corner of Peachtree and Collier roads, the new facility will provide updated amenities to patients in the community, as well as the Marcus Heart and Vascular Center, made possible in part by the Marcus Foundation. “As ... Continue Reading
WellStar Cancer Network Receives National Distinction
WellStar Health System’s Cancer Network has again been recognized for delivering world-class healthcare to its patients. Five WellStar hospitals have been granted a three-year accreditation with the Gold Commendation by the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This is the highest honor awarded to a cancer program. WellStar ... Continue Reading
Emory Pioneer Achieves Milestone for Cardiac Robotic Surgery
Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Douglas Murphy, MD has achieved a world record after completing his 2,000th robotically assisted mitral valve surgery. Murphy is a pioneer in the field of robotics, performing the state’s first robotic heart surgery at Emory Saint Joseph’s in 2002. Robotically-assisted heart surgery is a type of minimally invasive ... Continue Reading
Towns at Druid Hills
Rich in history, Atlanta’s Druid Hills neighborhood offers a vibrant lifestyle for people of all ages. Druid Hills contains historic mansions built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, verdant parks and trails, and close proximity to world-renowned Emory University, Emory School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare. It’s also home to burgeoning new construction in ... Continue Reading
The Importance of Language Nutrition
By Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health
There is a profound predictor of health and wellbeing that can be determined by three years of age. That predictor is language. Babies need food to sustain them and help them grow healthy and strong. Similarly, language is nutrition for the brain. The brains of very young children, even before they are born, are stimulated by hearing words. Early childhood language exposure ... Continue Reading
Zika Virus: A Practical Primer for Physicians
By Amanda Feldpausch, MPH; Julie Gabel, DVM, MPH; and Cherie L. Drenzek, DVM, MS The Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus primarily transmitted to humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, but it can also be transmitted sexually, intrauterine (resulting in congenital infection), intrapartum, via blood transfusion and by laboratory exposure. Zika virus outbreaks ... Continue Reading
Minimally Invasive Procedure for Gastroparesis Shows Promising Results
A minimally invasive procedure at Emory University Hospital is showing promise in patients with gastroparesis, a digestive disorder in which the stomach does not empty food in a normal manner. The results of two small Emory studies were presented recently at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) in Las Vegas, where the researchers accepted the 2016 ACG Governor’s ... Continue Reading
WellStar Health System Chief Pediatric Officer Avril Beckford, M.D., Wins Statewide Physician Hero Award
WellStar Health System Chief Pediatric Officer Avril Beckford, M.D., was awarded the prestigious Georgia Hospital Heroes Physician Hero Award at the Georgia Hospital Association’s (GHA) Annual Meeting on Nov. 11. Dr. Beckford, who was one of only 10 individuals statewide to receive the award, was recognized for the transformative work she has done for pediatric ... Continue Reading
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Satellite Symposium
December 2, 2016 at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. For more information, visit the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist ... Continue Reading