Georgia Science & Technology News

A 50-year-old Irwin County man died Tuesday of complications of H1N1 (swine flu), making his the first death in the 10-county health district to attributed to swine flu. Courtney Sheeley, who works as the South Health District 8-1’s media relations...

Holiday get-togethers and traveling itself provide an ideal way for illness to spread, especially H1N1 flu, U.S. health officials said. Officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Thursday it it beginning its largest ever public...

All the folks that believe the world in which we live in is going to be destroyed in the year 2012. They seem to be coming from all directions, even hollywood has made a movie and named the movie after...

Prosecutors countered that the state defines a "motor vehicle" as a "self-propelled" device, and there's no doubt a riding mower meets that standard. The state's top court agreed, concluding in an 18-page decision that the sentence should be overturned because...

The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season ends on tuesday with only nine named storms and three hurricanes with only Hurricanes Claudette in august and Hurricane Ida in november making landfall in the USA coast with only heavy rain and some flooding...

Shortly before noon yesterday, Dr. Benjamin Kruskal was tapping out an e-mail to his wife. The topic: the safety of swine flu vaccine. “A large group of her friends on Facebook are discussing it,’’ said Kruskal, a pediatrician and infectious...

Before the aromas of the holiday circle your kitchen, and your family and friends gather ‘round the dinner table, take a minute this holiday to be mindful of a few food safety tips...Before the aromas of the holiday circle your...

Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving...Just as the pandemic seems to be waning around the country, some health officials are worried that holiday gatherings could lead to more infections. So the government has...

The Georgia Professional Standards Commission has voted to issue a yearlong ban to four Glynn County educators involved in a statewide test cheating scandal. The commission's Thursday vote comes after a state audit released this summer found evidence that standardized...