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Brennan MeagherIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman at the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses results from the first year of a free lung cancer screening program in an area...
Nick GarrettMelissa Furman, assistant dean of the James M. Hull College of Business, has a message for upcoming entrepreneurs and business grads: Now is the best time to get your Masters of Business Administration at Augusta University. “What I think one...
Eric JohnsonThe JagStore has an offer you can’t refuse. Starting Monday, April 10, and running through Friday, April 28, the JagStore is offering a different 25 percent off sale every day. That means every day something new will be on sale. Hoodies, jackets...
The Cinema Series and the Lyceum Series will host a showing of four Japanese films in the Maxwell Theatre on Saturday, April 15 as part of Eiga Fest, a celebration of Japanese cinema and culture. [Eiga (pronounced “AY-gah”) is the...
In 2011, professional tennis player Venus Williams dropped out of the U.S. Open and revealed to the world that she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Sjogren’s syndrome. Researchers at Augusta University recently obtained a patent...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – Too much of a protein already associated with prostate cancer appears to also diminish the energy burning power of brown fat, scientists report. Their studies of the protein Id1 also show high levels reduce conversion of unhealthy...
Lucy N. Marion, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP, dean and professor of Nursing at the Augusta University College of Nursing, has been appointed as associate vice president for academic affairs for nursing at AU Medical Center. This new role will enhance the...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottDr. Paul Wallach, vice dean for academic affairs at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has been elected vice chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners Executive Board. The NBME sets state recognized exams for medical...
Kelly JasperA new Fortune Magazine highlights seven cities that could become the world’s next cybersecurity capital. Among them? Augusta, Ga. Augusta University President Brooks Keel spoke to Fortune about the university’s role in cybersecurity...
StaffSo, in case you missed it, Snoop Dogg stopped by the Forest Hills Campus to play some golf last week. Yeah, that Snoop Dogg. In town for a concert on the eve of the Masters, the venerable rapper received pointers from golf ambassador Seema Sadekar...
Denise ParrishAU Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to use the Philips biosensor in the clinical environment. The hospital decided to test the device on its medical-surgical population to help nurses who sometimes care for up to six med-surge...
Two-year-old Adalyn Dempsey, of Dearing, toddled around a playroom on the fourth floor of the Children’s Hospital of Georgia at Augusta University, blissfully unaware she has a serious medical condition that also connects her to a very famous golfer...
Danielle HarrisThanks to the unseasonably warm and cold weather Augusta experienced earlier this year, the Masters is going to look different with many the popular Springtime plants missing from the golf course. Dr. Charlotte Christy, an associate professor of...
The University of South Carolina Aiken and Augusta University will conduct a press conference in USC Aiken’s Ruth Patrick Science Education Center. The two institutions teamed up to examine a raptor egg being donated to USC Aiken.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – More typically, these immature immune cells might help us fight cancer, but scientists have now shown cancer can commandeer the cells to help it spread. Cancer uses myeloid-derived suppressive cells, or MDSCs, that come from the bone...
Due to inclement weather, Augusta University, including The Dental College of Georgia and East Georgia State College-Augusta, will close at 1 p.m. today. AU Medical Center and its clinics will remain open. University faculty and staff should not...
Dr. Roni Bollag, associate professor of pathology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and director of the Georgia Cancer Center’s Biorepository, has been named Distinguished Chair for Oncologic Pathology.
Students, residents and faculty from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University were inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in a ceremony and program, An Evening of Medicine and the Arts, Saturday, March 25, at the Morris Museum of...
Expect more terrorist attacks in Russia, political expert says
The April issue of Georgia Trend magazine includes an article about reaching patients who need specialized care in rural areas of the state. The REACH program, cofounded by Neurologist Dr. David C. Hess, interim dean of the Medical College of...