Heart Health
Understanding Your Heart Rate
You’ve probably noticed that your health care provider checks your heart rate during every visit. That’s because your heart is one of the most important organs in your body. Checking how your heart beats...
Primary Care
Migraine or Headache? How to Tell and Find Relief
Most of us get headaches now and then. They can be a pain—figuratively and literally—but they’re usually nothing serious. You take a couple aspirins, maybe get a little rest, and in no time you...
Cancer
Stories of Hope: World Cancer Day
In observance of World Cancer Day, held annually on February 4 to raise global awareness of cancer, here are three inspiring stories of cancer survivors treated at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Meet...
Hip
How an Olympian’s Hip Replacement Keeps Her Active in Her 30s
Hip replacement surgery is not just for older adults. Patients as young as in their 30s can recover quickly and go on to live more active lives. Recent improvements in surgery processes, equipment, anesthesia...
Heart Health
Protect Your Heart from the Flu and COVID-19
Winter and respiratory viruses go hand-in-hand. And this can be a big problem for your heart — especially with the recent severe flu and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) season in addition to the ongoing...
Neurology
Support for Dementia Caregivers Can Make All the Difference
When Shaw Skillings’ wife received an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in 2019, his head was spinning. Babs, then 77 years old, had been experiencing serious memory problems. By 2021, it wasn’t safe for her to drive. She couldn’t knit hats...
Cancer
Cancer Drug Shortages Happen, but No Cause for Alarm
Recently, we’ve been hearing about the serious shortage of certain widely used cancer drugs. For people whose cancer treatment depends on those drugs, it’s been a stomach-churning time of uncertainty and worry as they...
Diet/Nutrition
A Plant-Powered Menu Launches at Emory University Hospital
A new year can be an invitation for a fresh start or a time to recommit yourself to a healthy lifestyle. Emory Healthcare — and Emory University Hospital's Asbury Café — are here to support...
