Recently, the researchers of Georgia Health Sciences University have showed that the usage of Vitamin E could help in repairing the tearing plasma membrane. Plasma membrane often gets affected by one's daily activities.

According to latest reports, health experts have claimed that a slightly new scope of bariatric drug and the performance of weight loss treatment in order to help people suffering from obesity in obtaining a standard weight have been immensely accepted but contentious for a variety of reasons.

The American Cancer society holds Relay For Life events all over the country. This week, events in Georgia and Oregon celebrated survivors, mourned victims – and raised a substantial amount for cancer research.

Obese teens are more vulnerable to osteoporosis. As per a team of pediatricians from the Medical College of Georgia, overweight people are more likely to diagnose with osteoporosis.

On Monday morning a 67-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's walked out of her house in -13 temperatures in Georgian Bluffs. The man called the police barely 15 minutes before discovering that she is not present in the house.

A new study that was based on the impact of race and geography in stroke incidence has concluded that what matters is the way people cook fish that derives health benefits.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department decided that in order to enhance disability rights in Georgia, patients who suffer from mental conditions should move out of questionable, psychiatric institutions and be integrated into the wider community.

This represents a victory for Americans with Disabilities Act that demanded the improvement measures for mentally disabled.

The state and local health officials of the Southeast has been urging people to get vaccinated as there is a suspected resurgence of swine flu in some of its parts. States including Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are reporting regional outbreaks of the virus, while flu activity remains low in North Carolina.

Regulators closed four banks in Georgia and one each in Florida and Arizona on Friday, which brought the number of bank failures to 41, for the year 2010. They captured Desert Hills Bank of Phoenix which had six branches. The FDIC said that it had $496.6 million in assets and $426.5 million in deposits as of Dec. 31, 2009.

With a federal court scheduled to take up the AT&T-filed lawsuit against a Verizon commercial showing 3G coverage maps of the two carriers on Wednesday, Verizon Monday filed a rebuttal in a Georgia district court, in response to the AT&T claims.