After Joyce Duvall’s friend was diagnosed with cancer, he witnessed firsthand the need for housing the families who traveled to help care for their loved ones. That spurred Duvall to help found Christopher’s Haven. The nonprofit provides low-cost housing to childhood cancer patients and their families while they’re receiving treatment. The organization began in Boston […]
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Emory’s Dr. Carlos del Rio: ‘We failed in our pandemic response’
One of Georgia’s leading scientists – Dr. Carlos del Rio – declared the nation had failed in how it responded to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Atlanta Science Festival begins Saturday with talk on COVID vaccine in Black communities
The Atlanta Science Festival that begins Saturday and runs for two weeks offers three events on the COVID-19 vaccine that could be helpful to both youngsters and adults. The first vaccine presentation is Saturday morning.
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Atlanta’s housing authority wants COVID-19 vaccines for its senior residents
The city’s public housing authority is exploring the possibility of vaccinating its elderly residents to protect them from the spread of COVID-19 at the agency’s apartment complexes.
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McCamish Foundation invests in Parkinson’s research at Georgia Tech and Emory
Parkinson’s disease is personal for the McCamish Foundation. Henry “Hank” McCamish Jr. – an insurance executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist – died of Parkinson’s in 2013.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Milestones, markers and still fighting COVID-19
Happy birthday to Jimmy Carter … and more.
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Two leading Georgia scientists say: Get your flu vaccine
In this era of the COVID-19 pandemic, the best way to avoid a double whammy this fall is to get a flu shot.
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Emory University’s 15,000-plus solar panels show commitment to net zero goals
Emory University’s decision to install more than 15,000 solar panels exemplifies the leadership role universities are able to take in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the founder of the company working on Emory’s project said Wednesday.
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Transit tax votes in November: DeKalb not likely to seek voter approval, Gwinnett advances planning
DeKalb County has no plans to ask voters this year to raise the sales tax to pay for transit expansion, according to DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond’s office. The decision leaves unfunded projects including the one to serve the area at Emory University.
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Infectious disease doctors: Looming shortage as specialty among lowest paid
A shortage of doctors who specialize in infectious disease is looming at a time these specialists are needed to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic and are among the lowest paid of all medical specialties, a doctor at Duke University reports.
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COVID-19: Progress at Emory on new drug; survey shows doctor support for anti-malarials
Treatments of the coronovirus are emerging from two groups in metro Atlanta – a drug that Emory University is helping to create; and a nationwide survey of doctors that shows a majority would prescribe to their family members a malaria drug cited by President Trump.
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Emory, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation form ‘Addiction Alliance’
Emory University and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation have agreed to collaborate on an initiative to serve Georgians with addiction issues.
More than 150 Atlanta leaders attended a dinner at the Cherokee Town Club Wednesday night to learn more about the proposed collaboration and explore the next steps needed to create a comprehensive center to treat people suffering from addiction.
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MARTA board OKs spending plan for new light rail, rapid bus
Now MARTA shifts to zooming in on each individual project: turning those thick lines on maps into detailed designs of where exactly to lay a rail, where to build a bus lane, where to set up stations and stops.
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Some Atlanta new rapid bus projects expected by 2025; new light rail will take a while
MARTA has come up with a draft calendar of when it’ll spend some new tax money on a list of major light rail construction, rapid bus routes, station works and other improvements.
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The Super Bowl is finally over but another side of Atlanta hid in plain sight
The Super Bowl is over…finally.
Most of the remnants of the ‘Big Game’ are gone from downtown but many of the problems that were here before kickoff still remain.
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Former Georgia Research Alliance CEO joining Emory University
The Georgia Research Alliance’s Michael Cassidy is joining Emory University, according to Emory President Claire E. Sterk.
Cassidy will take a new position that is designed to provide vision and leadership to promote biomedical innovation and enhance the university’s economic engagement in the Atlanta region and Georgia.
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New “More MARTA” plan involves public-private partnerships, possibly other funds
A revised MARTA expansion proposal now includes more light rail than originally envisioned. It leans on other sources of money besides a sales tax to complete those big-dollar projects.
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Just Like the Flu Shot, Cyber Prevention Is No Sure Thing
The Metro Atlanta Chamber and Baker Donelson will be powering 2018 Atlanta Cyber Week from October 8-12 – a public-private collaboration highlighting the region’s cyber security ecosystem and solutions. Cybercon on Oct. 9 will bring together business, academic and government leaders to discuss the evolving industry landscape. Metro Atlanta is making a name for itself […]
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BeltLine boosters to MARTA: rail, now
As MARTA ponders how to spend a new Atlanta sales tax worth $2.5 billion over 40 years, BeltLine rail advocates say a ring of rail belongs at the top of the priority list.
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Atlanta, DeKalb to square off over annexation DeKalb says ‘smacks of backroom’ politics
Atlanta and the DeKalb County School District officially engage their two-front battle next week over DeKalb’s opposition to Atlanta’s annexation of Emory University and surrounding land. DeKalb says it will lose more than $2 million a year in school taxes. But more than money is at stake.
