
The Georgia Health Report
Friday afternoons at 5:44 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 5:35 p.m.
The WUGA Health Desk presents a weekly program, Georgia Health Report, focused on health news and issues facing Georgians. The program, hosted by Emma Auer, features regular news and commentary from Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead of KFF Health News, and Rebecca Grapevine of Healthbeat. Jamia Wideman is the show's production intern.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, the federal government shutdown is in its third week, with no end in sight.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report. It came down to the wire, but federal officials approved a temporary extension of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer and guest Emily Townsend Vinson discuss new discoveries in the treatment of substance use disorders and relapse prevention.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, we discuss the decisions of the much-awaited federal vaccine recommendation panel—will they impact who can get the COVID vaccine?
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On this week’s episode of the Georgia Health Report, hosts Emma Auer and Renuka Rayasam, a reporter based in Atlanta for KFF Health News, discussed how federal changes in Medicaid funding may result in fewer people being insured, and how hospitals serving rural and low-income communities may be impacted.
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This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer and KFF's Sam Whitehead preview the upcoming meeting in Atlanta of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer talks to Healthbeat Atlanta's Rebecca Grapevine about the recent exodus of top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, we’ll discuss the background on our state’s public health system, and what public health officials are telling legislators about the challenges ahead.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, we discusses an investigation into gun violence since the pandemic–and whether treating gun violence as a public health issue can save people’s lives.
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Today on the Georgia Health Report, Republican lawmakers in states including Georgia have long argued that the decision to refuse the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion would pay off in the long run.