Women's Health
Women’s Well Exam is Care from “Head to Toe”
When you start talking about “women’s health,” many people – including women – only associate it with exams like an annual Pap smear or pelvic exam. While those two exams are important components of...
Urgent Care
Convalescent Plasma Treatment Explained
As clinical researchers continue to identify a vaccine for COVID-19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized several treatments, such as remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine (which was later revoked by the FDA). Another treatment...
Health & Wellness
Telehealth Keeps Patients and Providers Connected during Pandemic
A Surge in Telehealth Visits
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Emory Healthcare has experienced a surge in telehealth visits, with more than 215,000 visits conducted between patients and their health care providers from mid-March through...
Urgent Care
Emory Connected Care: Virtual Medical Visits through Telehealth
Taking good care of yourself, seeing a doctor when something’s not right, and taking your medicine as prescribed are all vital to good health. So, why would you stop during a global pandemic? It...
Health & Wellness
Choose the 3Ws
There’s a lot of coronavirus information coming our way. And, aside from everyday changes, this information sometimes seems both conflicting and unclear.
Despite all the misinformation, rhetoric, and opinion that fill our news feeds, the...
Health & Wellness
More Top Doctors Recognized Than Any Other Atlanta Health System
Nearly half of the physicians recognized in the annual “Top Doctors” issue of Atlanta magazine are physicians who are part of Emory Healthcare, Emory Healthcare Network, Emory medical staff, or faculty of Emory University...
Health & Wellness
Expanding Compassion Amid the Loneliness & Isolation of COVID-19
Over the last two decades or so, researchers from many different fields of science have been working to uncover the biological bases of social connection. I am one of those researchers, trained as a...
Health & Wellness
4 Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle
As we all know, regular exercise is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. But because of various injuries and/or health conditions, instead of running on a treadmill or jumping rope, many people (especially...
