{"id":11544,"date":"2026-02-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:00:00","slug":"journalists-explain-colorectal-cancer-risk-and-federal-pullback-on-georgia-disability-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11544","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Explain Colorectal Cancer Risk and Federal Pullback on Georgia Disability Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 editor-at-large for public health, discussed on CBS News 24\/7\u2019s <em>The Daily Report<\/em> on Feb. 16 how the recent deaths of two actors sparked searches for colorectal cancer information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eoiYYqMiM_4\">Click here to watch Gounder on <em>The Daily Report<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed on WUGA\u2019s <em>The<\/em> <em>Georgia Health Report<\/em> on Feb. 13 how the Justice Department is pulling back its oversight of Georgia\u2019s system for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2026-02-13\/georgia-health-report-federal-oversight-of-state-mental-health-system-to-scale-back\">Click here to hear Whitehead on <em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Whitehead\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/georgia-disabilities-institutionalized-federal-oversight-doj\/\">Georgians With Disabilities Are Still Being Institutionalized, Despite Federal Oversight<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-february-21-2026-colorectal-cancer-georgia-disability-federal-oversight\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 editor-at-large for public health, discussed on CBS News 24\/7\u2019s The Daily Report on Feb. 16 how the recent deaths of two actors sparked searches for colorectal cancer information. Click here to watch Gounder on The Daily Report. KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed on WUGA\u2019s The Georgia Health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}