Georgia could face costs because high SNAP payment error rates
A new review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that Georgia has the fourth-highest number of errors in SNAP benefits payments in the country.
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A new review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that Georgia has the fourth-highest number of errors in SNAP benefits payments in the country.
For 25 years, Atlanta's Chastain Horse Parkin Atlanta has offered unique therapeutic services for kids and adults with disabilities.
The lawsuit, filed June 10 in Rockdale County Superior Court, alleges the company failed to provide timely hazard information, leaving first responders and neighbors unprotected. The complaint highlights specific claims for each plaintiff.
A new sensory treehouse at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center is helping make outdoor adventures more inclusive.
Emory University has received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health to establish a center to research how contaminants from Georgia Superfund sites affect human health.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says its new "GOOOOOOOOOAL!" campaign is designed to promote condom use in six U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, and more as FIFA World Cup excitement builds.
Doctors are jumping the gun to prescribe a medication lacking FDA approval that has gone viral on social media. "Why are we waiting?" one physician asked.
In Norcross, the quick-reflex game of table tennis is helping helping people with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and other neurological issues ease their symptoms.
Grady Health System is expanding access to emergency care with a new 24-hour emergency department in Union City.
The Grammy-winning singer known for Disney classics "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World" is under medical care, according to a representative.
This spring marks five years since LifeLink of Georgia and Piedmont Atlanta Hospital partnered to create a space dedicated to families of loved ones going through the organ donation process.
Officials say the metro Atlanta family who are confirmed to have measles had recently travelled internationally and were not vaccinated.
Four Georgians are among 184 people across 31 states who have gotten sick in a growing multistate salmonella outbreak tied to contact with backyard poultry, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials have identified at least 10 confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus tied to an outbreak on the M/V Hondius cruise ship.
The two new locations are part a goal to ensure Atlanta families are just 30 minutes or less from a Children's Healthcare facility
Officials are warning resident to be cautious of blue-green algae bloom in Lake Allatoona that could be dangerous to them and their pets.
Without clinics like Fayette C.A.R.E., some patients delay treatment until a medical crisis forces them into an emergency room. That's what Healing Bridge Clinic is trying to prevent.
With the new law signed by Gov. Kemp on Tuesday, Georgia becomes the 41st state to specifically use cannabis for medical purposes.
A passenger believed to have been exposed to the hantavirus while aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested negative for the virus while at Emory University Hospital.
Two people believed to have been exposed to hantavirus arrived in Atlanta on Monday and were taken to Emory University Hospital after being transported through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, federal health officials confirmed.
The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its 24/7 emergency center in Atlanta to monitor the recent deadly hantavirus outbreak onboard the MV Hondius.
Injured U.S. military veterans experience the healing power of water and wildlife at the Georgia Aquarium when they swam with manta rays, goliath groupers, and even a whale shark as part of the Wounded Warrior Project.
May 5 is National Silence The Shame Day, and the Atlanta nonprofit organization named for it is marking ten years of impact.
A maker of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to block an appellate court ruling that cut off mail-order access to the drug just a day earlier.
A Decatur man has been sentenced to life in prison for using a "ghost gun" to kill another man last year at a DeKalb County apartment complex, officials say.
Five people have been arrested on murder charges for a shooting at a Georgia bar that left two dead and more injured in 2022, the GBI says.
The city accountant for a small Georgia town is accused of forging multiple documents to purchase a million-dollar home, according to investigators.
Treatments are underway in two Roswell parks after more mosquitoes trapped in Fulton County tested positive for West Nile virus.
Four more law enforcement officers across Georgia are the latest to be arrested in connection with misusing Flock license plate cameras, authorities say.