Augusta University
Taylor LambGRU Augusta head men’s basketball coach Dip Metress signed seven student-athletes for the upcoming 2015-16 season and gained six true freshman and one senior to compete for the Jaguars in the upcoming slate. The Jaguars added freshmen Jashawn...
Nick GarrettNatalie Lane, Medical Director of the emergency department at Children’s Hospital of Georgia, was recently featured in a U.S. News and World Report article about pool safety.
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The NCAA announced major rule changes on Monday that quicken the pace of men’s college basketball games.
Click here to watch Metress talk about the recent changes with WJBF’s Matt Zahn.
Drew Belt, part-time golf coach at Georgia Regents University, was recently featured in the Columbia County News Times to talk about his ideas on the three fundamentals of golf. Belt, who has taught at the Nick Faldo Golf Institute, Jones Creek, and...
StaffGeorgia Regents University is creating the GRU Cyber Institute to develop research, new curriculum, and outreach opportunities in cybersecurity starting this summer. “We want to be known for cyber,” said Joanne Sexton, Director for GRU Cyber...
At the Annual Meeting of the American Urologic Association, an analysis by the GRU Urology team was chosen for highlighting by CancerTherapyAdvisor.com. This study showed that non-married patients with lower socioeconomic status were more likely to...
Dr. Dennis Murray, Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, spoke with Augusta Magazine recently regarding measles outbreaks in the United States. Murray, a University of Michigan Medical School graduate, has been...
Visit the Augusta Chronicle’s multimedia look at Preston Weaver, the 7-year-old who was the first child enrolled in a clinical trial here involving a marijuana-based oil drug.
Graduation speaker Jane Chen, a TED Senior Fellow and the co-founder of Embrace, a company that has created an inexpensive baby incubator that could save millions of lives worldwide, asked the graduates and those filling the James Brown Arena to...
Denise ParrishU.S. News & World Report: May 5, 2015 More than 17 million Americans suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence. But not everyone can tell when heavy drinking crosses the line to alcoholism. To help people identify when drinking becomes a problem...
Jessica Schwind, an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, was already planning to travel to Nepal when the earthquake occurred on April 25. Now, she and her colleagues are pitching in to help in the relief effort...
Haley HughesGround was broken Friday on a new 724-bed student housing complex that will, as Georgia Regents University President Dr. Ricardo Azziz said, elevate the student experience to an entirely new level. Not only will GRU’s new residence halls help...
DotMed: April 30, 2015 On July 1, 2013, Philips Healthcare and Georgia Regents Medical Center embarked on a 15-year partnership worth $300 million to transform the health care delivery model. Nearly two years later, GRHealth has experienced about...
Pictured above are Kayla Davis (right) and her kidney donor Jennifer Moss in Davis’ room at Georgia Regents Medical Center shortly after the successful transplant surgery. (Photo courtesy of Time.com) Time.com: April 30, 2015 Jennifer Moss and...
Danielle HarrisAna Thompson, Chair and Professor of GRU’s Department of Dental Hygiene, is presenting a new way to teach kids about the importance dental hygiene. Click here to watch her share details with WJBF about her coloring book Keeping up with your...
Fierce Health Finance: April 21, 2015 Hospitals turn to outside firms to provide more clinical services [Special Report] Hospital imaging often renders a disquieting financial picture. The equipment costs millions of dollars to either purchase or...
After taking viewers inside the operating room for heart surgery with Drs. Vijay Patel and Vinayak Kamath a few weeks ago, WJBF News Channel 6 Reporter Renetta Dubose talks with three heart patients about their diagnoses and treatments. Patient...
The Augusta Chronicle: April 28, 2015 Inside the simulation center at Georgia Regents University, interim Director Wendy Jo Wilkinson was struggling to get the birthing simulator to deliver a fetus when Dr. Xianhui Zhu made a wry observation. “Maybe...
The Augusta Chronicle: Saturday, April 18, 2015 Saturday’s cold, misty weather couldn’t deter a group of Georgia Regents University students who’ve pledged to clean up a Harrisburg cemetery they feel has been long forgotten. Students from the...
Watch television coverage of the Grand Opening Celebration of the new Georgia Regents Digestive Health Center. WJBF News Channel 6 personality and patient Jennie Montgomery helped cut the ribbon and shared how Center Director Dr. Satish Rao...