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Emory University Hospital

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is the core facility of one of the nation's leading university-based health systems, with nationally and internationally recognized faculty physicians in more than 100 specialty and subspecialty areas. The adult, tertiary care facility is a component of Emory Healthcare, the largest and most comprehensive health system in Georgia as of 2006. About 23,000 inpatients and more than 81,000 outpatients visit Emory University Hospital each year, according to 2006 records. As of that same year the hospital contains 579 beds and is staffed by 800 practicing physicians, who are also faculty members at the Emory University School ...

Malaria

Malaria, which has affected Georgians since colonial times, is a disease caused by one of four protozoan species of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite enters people through the ...

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GALILEO

GALILEO is Georgia's Virtual Library, providing access to articles, eBooks, historical documents and photos, and much more.�...

Albany

Albany, the seat of Dougherty County, has been the commercial hub of southwest Georgia for most of its history. Although it had competitors, namely...

New Deal

Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, educatio...