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Bonuses deferred for some senior execs at Atlanta VA
Bonuses for some local senior executives at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have been deferred pending further review, the department said Saturday. An audit published last month by the VA’s Inspector General blamed mismanagement at the Atlanta VA for three deaths of mental health patients and examined long waiting ...
Bonuses suspended for senior execs at Atlanta VA
Bonuses for some local senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs have been deferred pending further review, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Saturday. A former top administrator at the Atlanta VA Medical Center received performance bonuses over a four-year span as internal audits revealed lengthy wait times ...
National registry to help prevent Alzheimer’s
Ann Powell entered her name, birth date, gender, ethnicity, e-mail address and answered five questions about whether she had a family history or been diagnoses with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. In less than five minutes, the Buckhead real estate manager had become one of thousands of people who have ...
Atlanta student entrepreneur a global winner
Come Tuesday, Jushawn Carter, one of this year’s Global Young Entrepreneurs, will be honored alongside 29 other teen entrepreneurs at a splashy New York City gala. It will be the opportunity of a lifetime made possible by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
Teens, young adults bear disproportionate share of STDs
In the heat of the moment, it’s a good bet that sexually transmitted infections are the last thing on a teen’s or young adult’s mind.Thus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, youths ages 15-24, who make up just over one-quarter of the sexually active population, ...
Empowering the hungry and homeless for the long term
For years, if he could find a place, George Talley made his bed in a boarding house or rented one for a week or month at a time. After serving three years as a medical specialist in the jungles of Vietnam, it was hardly the way he’d imagined his life, ...
Protect your children from identity thieves
We’re told to monitor our credit, to protect ourselves from identity theft. But who knew to apply that same wisdom to our offspring? Last year the number of identity theft victims reached 12.6 million, up 1 million from the previous year, according to a Javelin Strategy and Research Identity Fraud ...
No more static for Carson Rubin
Up until recently, years of speech therapy, patience and love powered little Carson Rubin past his disability. He could do everything his 5-year-old peers could, but it was hard to ignore the fact that he was always one step behind. “He couldn’t learn in a group setting,” said his mother, ...
Play about Marvin Gaye’s life, death aims to set the record straight
If you’ve ever wondered what the truth of singer Marvin Gaye’s life might look like, or asked why an ordained Pentecostal minister would kill his own son, the play “My Brother Marvin” promises answers. The show, written and adapted for the stage by playwright Angela Dunlap, opens for a three-day ...
Ah-choo, it’s spring! Season brings pollen, doctor’s advice
Ahh, spring. You’re back. And although you’re much cooler than we expected, welcome. But must you always bring the oak pollen and the elm and cedar? Isn’t it enough that another unusually mild winter wrought more suffering by triggering the allergy season earlier? Ok, well, bless you, sneezes and all. ...
Giving a VOICE to victims of childhood sexual abuse
For most of her life, Angela Williams kept the abuse to herself. There were no words for the horror and the guilt and the shame she felt. And who would believe her? In some ways it was just easier to pack it away, soothe herself with drugs and alcohol, to ...
Match Day: More than 50 percent of Georgia medical school students receive a primary care match
In some ways, the scene was reminiscent of the Academy Awards without the red carpet. There were sealed envelopes, tears, speeches and stories told in pictures. Morehouse School of Medicine students Jason Payne, Charisma Manley and 52 others broke the seals on letters that revealed where they will spend the ...
Reinventing self is a new normal in this economy
For years now the economy has been forcing people to take stock of their lives and in some cases reinvent themselves.And yet not all of those people have started over after getting pink slips. Some were left unfulfilled by jobs with competitive salaries and benefits and thus took a chance ...
Countering statistics and stereotypes
Five days a week, Carolyn Banks rises at 5 a.m., dresses and drives 22 miles to the Beulah Baptist Church Family Life Center to work out the kinks in her joints, to rev up her heart and health. Exercise, she says, has been a part of her daily routine since ...
Baby cured of HIV needs more study, Emory doctors say
Nearly 200 U.S. mothers this year will learn that their newborns are HIV-positive and that they will need a steady dose of antiretroviral medicines most likely for the rest of their lives. Stopping those medications, doctors say, will lead to certain illness and not, despite one recently reported case, to ...
Dunwoody teen’s tragedy turns to hope, help
It looked like time might be running out for Chip Madren. One moment he was a normal 13-year-old, and the next, doctors were telling his parents a deadly cancer was spreading in his brain. Lea and Ken Madren turned to their faith that day in 2010. They asked for prayers. ...
Taking small steps to change a community
For six years, Wayne Ricketts says his sole purpose in life was to find his next crack fix.Then in the fall of 2011, when the Friends of English Avenue, an Atlanta non-profit group, were breaking ground for its first community garden, Ricketts found himself in their midst, hunkered over some ...
Cold and flu season brings a rash of pinkeye
Elizabeth Brockob’s eye was red and hurting, and so, like a lot of us, she went to the Internet for a diagnosis.Within minutes the 13-year-old from Johns Creek was convinced she was going blind and that she could die.“It scared me,” Brockob said.Although she had reason for concern, her diagnosis ...
A chance to give back some of what they’ve been given
In a small Lilburn kitchen stocked with more love than staples, Jennie Leigh, Lauren Anthony and BobbieJo Williams busied themselves mixing and baking cookies, cupcakes and brownies, the kind of goodness they hope will one day help rid Third World countries of tetanus.For most of their lives, the three women, ...
Melba Moore stars in “Good God A’Mighty” at 14th Street Playhouse
Hardly a day goes by that Melba Moore doesn’t attend church. So it’s no wonder the Tony award-winning actress feels right at home in “Good God A’Mighty,” a play scheduled to open Feb. 14 at the 14th Street Playhouse. Moore plays the feisty choir director Reen L’Dimp, who tries to ...
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