Rebecca Grapevine

Rebecca Grapevine

Reporter, Healthbeat

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rebecca Grapevine is back home as a Healthbeat local reporter. Influenced by her hometown and extensive travels, she became fascinated by public health while working in hospitals in India and Atlanta. She got her start as a journalist writing for Georgia Health News and KFF Health News. She has also reported for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Capitol Beat News Service and the Louisville Courier Journal. Along the way, Rebecca earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and learned to speak Hindi (nearly) fluently.

Five of 10 HIV branches have been eliminated by last week’s massive cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The state passed a budget that includes expanding home health care visits for pregnancies, new parents, and newborns.

It’s pine tree pollen that coats cars and windowsills in a sunny shade of yellow, but the pollens that fuel allergies here come mostly from hardwood trees like oak, birch, sycamore, and hickory.

More than a dozen NIH grants to Georgia institutions have been canceled since President Donald Trump took office.

“Cuts at the CDC impact health, national security, community wellness, jobs in Atlanta, and faith in our day to day,” Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said.

The federal agency funds $50 million of efforts to reduce HIV in Georgia, which had the second-highest rate of new cases in 2022.

Small businesses use a tiny portion of the NIH’s budget to bridge the gap between research and consumers, like making devices that reduce pain without opioids.

The study found an association for Black women between childhood trauma and greater arterial stiffening.

Here are the decisions Georgia lawmakers made on public health bills ahead of a crucial legislative deadline.

The university is joining a growing list of top research universities that plan to freeze or limit hiring because of concerns about federal research funding cuts.