Risky Medicine: An AJC investigative series

This AJC investigative series examines how Georgia is responding to practitioners touting unproven and disproven health treatments. After compiling a database of alternative medicine and "wellness" businesses in Georgia, the reporting team studied what treatments clinics offer, what qualifications practitioners claim to have, and the effectiveness of the state's oversight body.

Welcome to Georgia, where questionable therapies flourish with little oversight

Hundreds of Georgia wellness clinics promote unproven treatments with little oversight from one of the nation’s weakest medical boards, an AJC investigation found.

Tennessee cracked down on a questionable therapy. Georgia gave its doctors a home.

Two doctors ran afoul of the DOJ after moving to Georgia from Tennessee so they could use chelation, a treatment for removing heavy metals, as a cure-all and billed Medicare.

Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret

An AJC investigation found some Georgia alternative medicine clinics marketing unproven treatments and costly supplements to desperate patients.

Atlanta clinic promoting unconventional medicine has controversial history

Almost every other day, another video appears on social media showing a man with white hair and a white beard sitting behind a microphone and extolling the virtues of alternat...