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WebMD • 17th January 2025

Why Exercise Helps Fatty Liver Disease

Fatty liver disease develops slowly. Long stretches of excess nutrients like fat and glucose in the blood -- whether from diet, inactivity, stress, infection, or other causes -- can overwhelm your liver. Exercise can help restore balance.

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WebMD • 12th December 2024

Could GLP-1s Treat Fatty Liver Disease?

Lower weight from GLP-1s may lead to better health outcomes for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and – possibly – nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

WebMD • 29th October 2024

The Truth About Whole-Body Scans

The appeal of whole-body scans is clear: Who wouldn’t want to catch an illness before it causes serious damage? The problem, according to experts, is that, except in very rare cases, there is no evidence that shows they can accomplish this.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • 15th June 2024

Lawmaker’s goal after son’s near-death experience: Increase organ donations

Few people get the gift of life twice. Will Albers is among them.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • 12th May 2021

Adolescents and young teens, now eligible, rush to get vaccinated

A line of adolescents and their parents stood in the drizzling rain outside a Decatur pediatricians’ office Wednesday, awaiting their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • 10th May 2021

FDA authorizes COVID vaccine for middle and high school students

The action makes immunization accessible to all high school students and many in middle school, where students typically start sixth grade at age 11.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • 1st March 2021

Georgia teachers going out of state to get vaccinated

Alison Cundiff’s heartbeat quickened as she handed the man her driver’s license. She had driven nearly three hours to a Tennessee COVID-19 vaccination site, and she worried he'd see “Georgia” on her license and send her home without a shot.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • 26th November 2019

Metro Atlanta mom terrified as vaping son struggles with lung failure

She could hear her son wailing as they pried his ribs apart. With one lung deflated, and another barely functioning, he might have suffocated without the pencil-thick tube a surgeon was pushiung into his chest.