Chronic shortages of healthcare workers (HCWs) represent one of the biggest barriers to development and improvements in health outcomes for people living in developing countries.
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Are your 2015 resolutions simple, slow, and satisfying?
It may sound more like an ad for scotch than a primer for likely success at achieving New Year’s resolutions, but here’s why simple, slow, and satisfying works as a way to be healthier in 2015.
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Why “Location, Location, Location” Actually Matters
This week, we are reviving one of our most popular columns. Though the saying’s origin is unknown, everyone is familiar with the phrase that three most important factors when searching for a new home are “location location location.” However, location goes beyond a great school system and grocery store convenience. A great location is also […]
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The allure of history in Rome and Floyd County
Floyd County lies in the green ridges and valleys about 90 minutes northwest of Atlanta. Its presence is a reminder that we need not travel the world to find exotic monuments and clues to civilizations’ ebbing and flowing.
In fact, its history is almost a perfect national prism: the jostling for a place to call home by diverse populations, and the gradual as well as sweeping social changes they ignited.
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Lights, garden, action: Is personal change possible in 2015?
At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, you put down that second slice of deep dish apple pie and start the diet, or tip the foot of the champagne glass skyward and swallow what you vow will be your last sip of alcohol.
Or maybe you pledge to quit the mill where you work or learn a new language or read a book a week. Or perhaps you make no resolutions at all. After all, what’s the point?
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How Do You Avoid Christmas Stress? Choices You Can Make To Reduce Holiday Rabies
You do have choices this holiday season: you can choose to take care of yourself and say no. And as you count your blessings, your blood pressure may well go down in equal measure.
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How to get back in shape after the holidays? Keep the focus on wellness.
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations It’s no secret that the holidays are rough on our waistlines and our health. By all means, eat, drink and be merry this December! But once the new year starts, it’s time to rededicate ourselves to health. After taking a holiday break, what’s the best way to […]
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Courthouses of Georgia book celebrates county hallmarks
This week guest contributor ROSS KING, executive director of ACCG, Georgia’s county association, and a Georgia Humanities Council board member, invites readers to take a new look at Georgia’s courthouses.
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Forging a new future for GSU Holiday Iron Pour
The Iron Age of Atlanta ended Saturday night at 184 Edgewood Avenue. The 43rd annual Holiday Iron Pour, held at a makeshift foundry operated by Georgia State University sculpture students and professors, marked the end of an era and an uncertain future for this tradition of making one-of-a-kind items from molten metal.
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From fear, to preparation
The Haiyan nightmare is something I couldn’t imagine my family and the rest of the Philippines experiencing again, only a year after one of the strongest storms on record. Even its name – Hagupit (a Filipino term which means ‘lash’)- evoked fear.
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Have the flu? Know the best home remedies?
December is peak time for flu. If you or someone you love ends up with the flu this holiday season, here are tried and true home remedies, and advice on when to see the physician.
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Atlanta Real Estate Celebrates Successful Year
With the end of 2014 quickly approaching, The Cal-Culator has a lot to celebrate in the Atlanta real estate industry. Despite the overall success of 2014, the industry is experiencing a standard winter decline.
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Over time, over easy: Waffle House melts into memories
Unlike the Southern cult(ure) that it represents, the Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates is only open twice a year. Saturday was one of those special days. I drive by the museum all the time but, like the chain itself, it’s so much part of our landscape that who pauses to consider what it’s accomplished?
This day—the 21,642nd day of continuous Waffle House service—I paused to celebrate the kitschy regional eatery that has inspired country songwriters and served as a backdrop for movies.
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Welcome South, Brother
This week, guest contributor MARTIN LEHFELDT, former Georgia Humanities Council board member and former president of the Southeastern Council of Foundations, muses on what southerners have taught him.
Four and a half decades ago, I came South for what I assumed would be a brief cultural experience. I never left.
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The Next Big Epidemic: The Wave of Tuberculosis
Even though tuberculosis is treatable, it is spreading rapidly, taking the lives of over 1.5 million people each year. Much like Ebola, it has been around for years and those in the global health community are working to end it, but it doesn’t get the media coverage that it deserves.
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When is the best time to get a flu shot, and why is it so important?
Why December is a great time to get your flu shot, how to avoid the flu, and why cold weather brings more illness: a guide for you, your family, and your co-workers!
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Ferguson reminds us that we must have ‘faith in strangers’ — our democracy depends upon it
Learning how to live together peacefully is a theme again — actually, it has been a theme all throughout American history. Ferguson is the momentary focal point, and based on our history, we can expect other cases to emerge like lava flows, evidence of the colliding forces hidden just below the surface. Ferguson raises a question: How can we learn to see each other clearly and without the lens of prejudgment?
There is perhaps no more difficult yet essential act we can take. Yet for many, every fiber of their nature seems to make it difficult to cross the divides.
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‘Tis the Season to Search for a Home
Though you likely don’t have visions of house hunting dancing in your head during winter, the holiday season is surprisingly a great time to buy a new home.
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Getting a strategy to cope with holiday (diabetic) stress
Ding dong merrily on high. Welcome to my nightmare. For a Type 2 diabetic and compulsive overeater like me, visions of sugarplums, figgy pudding, gingerbread, wassail, eggnog, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding fill me more with dread than desire.
I am one of 29 million diabetics in the U.S. – 9.3 percent of the population – according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Diabetes is a costly epidemic! Learn more about it now, before Thanksgiving’s temptation to over indulge.
While diabetes is not an easy disease to manage, there are steps many of us can take to reduce our likelihood of developing the disease. Share these tips for diabetes prevention with your loved ones.
