Ariel Hart

Ariel Hart is a reporter on health care issues. She works on the AJC’s health team and has reported on subjects including the Voting Rights Act, technology, storms and transportation. She has been with the AJC since 2005.

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Kaiser Permanente pays $31.5M to buy land near former Turner Field

Kaiser Permanente announced it bought a 7-acre site in Summerhill near Center Parc Stadium.

The new CDC deputy also a MAHA fan and vaccine skeptic

Dr. Ralph Abraham of Louisiana began as the CDC’s principal deputy director Jan. 5.

Teen fighting cancer gets a trip to college football championship

Monday, Burke Bowie got news that he was in remission from cancer. Friday, he was surprised with a trip to watch the College Football National Championship game, and a parade.

Georgia baby is state’s first 2026 measles case

The case is not related to South Carolina’s massive outbreak, officials say.

Georgia gets $219 million to ‘transform’ rural health

The grant is to be the first of five annually, and is meant to offset health care cuts in the federal spending plan.

Georgia requests $1.4B to transform rural health care

The Kemp administration is applying for a one-time federal grant to be awarded by New Year's Eve to fund the GREAT Health program.

Georgia loses 190,000 enrollees in first steps of 2026 ACA enrollment

Expiring pandemic-era federal subsidies are set to spike premiums for some enrollees.

Georgians have more time to sign up for some ACA coverage

Obamacare open enrollment ended Monday for much of the country. For Georgians, plans that begin Feb. 1 are still on sale for another month.

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CDC vote looms on lifting recommended hepatitis B vaccine for newborns

The universal recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hep B is up for reconsideration when the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meets today and Friday.

Two families, two organ transplants, many lives changed

Two reasons to be thankful. An unusual organ transplant story.

One family's decisions led to one of the most unusual live organ transplants in Piedmont Hospital’s history.