The 24-hour “Marrow-thon” to find a bone marrow donor match for an Athens Academy sixth grader was successful, 11 Alive reported this morning. The odds of finding a match for 12-year-old Kajal Patel, who was diagnosed with an immune disorder at the age of nine months, were one in 20,000 — but impossible was nothing to [...]

Ex-convict Chris Sandy and DUI victim Eric Krug shared the stories behind their situations with University students Monday night. The pair spoke as part of the University’s National Public Health Week. They intended their lecture to encourage students to focus on their choices and to “see the reality of consequences” — particularly as they pertained [...]

For those still in the hunt to find your perfect crash pad for next semester, new information on housing fires may aid your search. Since January of 2000, over 150 fire deaths have occurred in campus-related incidents around the U.S. and over 85 percent of all fire deaths, according to Campus Firewatch, occur off-campus. “The [...]

In a situation where every passing second could mean life or death, an accident report can sometimes add time to an already ticking clock. On Feb. 15, a University student riding down Milledge Avenue on his bicycle was hit from behind by a car and left injured on the road. Sam Rafal, a University alumnus [...]

The reported number of sexually transmitted diseases in Athens is disproportionately high for non-University students, according to statistics gathered by the Athens-Clarke County Board of Health. In 2010, 263 cases of Chlamydia in teens ages 13 to 19 were reported in ACC. This number was the highest in the Northeast Health District of Georgia, with [...]

For Kajal Patel, an Athens Academy sixth grader diagnosed with an immune disorder at the age of nine months, only a bone marrow transplant stands in the way from regaining her health. The chances of finding a bone marrow donor match for Patel are 1 in 20,000. But classmates of Patel aren’t idly standing by [...]

Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef?” campaign may have taken a new meaning. In December 2011, McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King announced they would stop the use of boneless lean beef trimmings — referred to by some consumers as “pink slime” — in their products. Pink slime, as coined by former USDA scientist Gerald Zirnstein based [...]

Competition for the University’s Biggest Loser is growing. From Jan. 22 to March 23, the University’s Department of Recreational Sports conducted its Biggest Loser Competition for the second year. Unlike the television show, Ramsey’s Biggest Loser program included participants from a variety of fitness backgrounds and focused on helping participants reach fitness goals, not simply [...]

The generation that never sleeps may be getting a rude awakening from a new medical study on sugar-sweetened beverages. Frank B. Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health released the results of a 22-year survey on the drinking habits of men ages 40 to 75. It found that daily consumption of at least one sugar-sweetened beverage [...]

Think before biting into a hamburger. Any amount and any type of red meat appears to increase the risk of premature death, according to a study from the Harvard School of Public Health examining the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults over more than 20 years. Mortality rates as a result of cardiovascular disease and cancer also [...]