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Ellen Eldridge

Ellen Eldridge is the senior health care reporter for Georgia Public Broadcasting. Her work appears on Now Habersham through a reporting partnership with GPB News, a non-profit newsroom covering the state of Georgia. 
State, National & World News

Debt stress can ruin the holidays, especially for young adults

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State, National & World News

Influx of data centers threatens air quality, public health in Atlanta, environmental activists say

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Health & Safety

This Georgia hospital is top 10 in U.S. for children’s specialty care

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Health & Safety

Vaccine expert says half of the children who died of COVID last year were previously healthy

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Health & Safety

Emory cancer researchers can now track pediatric brain tumors, assess treatment by blood test

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Weather

Defense Department to cut meteorologists’ access to hurricane storm intensity data

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Health & Safety

Georgia health scorecard rank ties directly to policy and lack of affordable health care, group says

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Health & Safety

Emory virologist: Pet cats are at risk of bird flu and could transmit to humans

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Health & Safety

New non-opioid painkiller may help stop addiction before it starts

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Health & Safety

Georgia now has a ‘right to try’ law so terminal patients can take experimental medications

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State, National & World News

A new Georgia bill would add mandatory minimum sentences to fentanyl-related crimes and deaths

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State, National & World News

Georgians could get screened for HIV meds prescribed in pharmacies if this bill passes

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State, National & World News

Carter Center Mental Health Program to merge with Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

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Health & Safety

Amid rising measles cases, and one death from the disease, some ask ‘Do I need an MMR booster?’

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Health & Safety

Researchers expect FDA to approve a twice-yearly shot that reduces risk of HIV infection by 96%

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Health & Safety

As flu cases rise in Georgia, CDC reminds ‘it’s not too late’ for annual shot

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Health

Much more goes into holiday ‘comfort food’ than ingredients

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Health & Safety

Report: Georgia policymakers must increase access to early screening for lung cancer to save lives

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Health & Safety

Public health officials return to Walton High School to read TB test results

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Area News

Apalachee High School students return to counselors, therapy dogs and hugs from friends, teachers

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